Music making Quotes · Page 58

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

— Jay DeMarcus

“Work is created to be an instrument through which you release your potential”

— Sunday Adelaja

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

— Adam Jones

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

— Ashley McBryde

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

— Walt Whitman

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Nobody wants to hear me sing! I can sing, but nobody wants to be there for it.

— Matt Letscher

Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.

— Sebastian Bach

Friday and Saturday, we bring in bands that are well known around town. Mostly in the jazz genre.

— Paul Taylor

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

— John Hawkes

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

— Tom Anderson

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

— Jill Scott

I'm just really interested, when a band plays and they think they sucked from a band perspective.

— Pat Smear

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

— Joey Jordison

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

— Adrian Belew

When you're in a band, you're all in it together. You're always available. You're always available for the albums; you're always available…

— Steven Wilson

Music's always been a big part of my life. Because of my father, I was always surrounded by music and musicians, and…

— Timothy B. Schmit

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will…

— Edgard Varese

Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American…

— Rhiannon Giddens

Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of…

— John de Lancie

My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My…

— Ronnie Hawkins

As long as we were making music that we felt was of the same quality, there was no reason to stop making…

— John Dolmayan

There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.

— Michael Kiwanuka

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

— Oscar Isaac

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

— John Entwistle

I always wanted to be in a rock band, but I wanted to sing like a soul singer.

— Jimmy Barnes

I'm going to keep pursuing my dream, keep singing and, hopefully, move to L.A.

— Katie Stevens

“P.S. We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”

— André Aciman

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

— Evan Dando

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

— James Maslow

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

— Winston Marshall

We're not really band guys. We're shlumpy guys. We don't look like rock stars.

— Kyle Gass

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

— Art Alexakis

I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.

— Jose Carreras

A bird does not sing because it has an answer, is sings because it has a song.

— Anonymous

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

— Eric Andre

The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together...

— Nicholas Sparks

My dad's mates were all in bands, and I just wanted to be like my Dad's mates.

— Matty Healy