Music making Quotes · Page 58

I think I'm eclectic and I'm never afraid to not know an artist or a band or an album because I want…

— Jade Bird

When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I love it when you hear a band, and you just go, 'Yes! I never knew it, but that's exactly what I…

— Tech N9ne

We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the…

— Nicola Roberts

If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is…

— James Murphy

I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass…

— Trombone Shorty

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

— Levon Helm

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

— Rostam Batmanglij

By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or…

— Chesney Hawkes

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

— Ryan Hurd

Directing taught me how to run a team and turn up on time - things you don't really learn when you're in…

— Viv Albertine

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

— McCoy Tyner

Good evening everybody, my name is Robbie Williams, this is my band and for the next two hours YOUR ASS IS MINE!

— Robbie Williams

We've given up the idea that a guitar must always and everywhere be readily available just because we're a band.

— Bill Kaulitz

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

— George Benson

What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

— Bill Vaughan

The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

— Washed Out

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

— Chad Kroeger

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

— Beck

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

— Charlie Watts

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

— Henry Miller

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

— Martin Gore

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

— M. Jayachandran

I've seen bands come out and begin their concerts with these long, slow, boring songs. Are they kidding, or what?

— Rick Nielsen

You have certain songs that bands make that just don't go away. We were blessed with that, and it was 'All Star.'

— Steve Harwell

Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.

— Hope Sandoval

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at…

— Sharon Jones

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.

— Joey Jordison

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B…

— Gary Wright

Whether you are out in the world, or you're at home, you are simply an instrument of God's love in your universe.

— Harold Klemp

And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

— Rumi

Post my stint as a sportsman, I found solace in singing and trained for extended hours in Indian classical music.

— Harrdy Sandhu

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

— Dev Hynes

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

— Alessia Cara

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage…

— Anonymous

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it…

— Jose Carreras

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them.

— Colin Marston

Music is my soul, and I love singing and dancing, but being on the road is not a real way of life…

— Ashley Roberts