Music making Quotes · Page 59

Whatever my singing aspirations are, you'll hear them in 'Aap Ka Suroor.' It's no run-of-the-mill album.

— Himesh Reshammiya

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

— Dev Hynes

When you are busy with all the live shows and bands, world music and jazz music, it takes time to come back…

— Shankar Mahadevan

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word.…

— Gerard Way

We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were…

— Gwen Stefani

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

— Stewart Copeland

I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I…

— Victoria Clark

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

— Susan Stroman

When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the…

— David Bryan

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't…

— Ryan Hemsworth

I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV.…

— Ron Wood

We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art…

— Casey Spooner

“There are other worlds to sing in.”

— Dean Koontz

“it’s not even people anymore, it’s one big thing you want to control and once you’ve had a taste of it, you’re…

— Fannie Flagg

There was a show in Germany called Beat Club, and they had a lot of bands playing live. And I had this…

— Ottmar Liebert

I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of…

— Morgan Llywelyn

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

— Colin Meloy

Singing is my form of expression; it's what I've always done and I hope that in some capacity I'll always have that…

— Wendy Matthews

Hopefully we can be a band who has a career like U2 or Aerosmith or somebody like that but that's very far…

— Barry Kerch

I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own…

— Nelly

You never know what's next for me. I might go into making one of them rock bands.

— Scarface

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs…

— Johnny Van Zant

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a…

— Charles Munch

The main thing is that this band keeps going.

— Jerry Only

The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but…

— Hank Williams III

I always wanted to play music, and always loved it. I saw a band come to school, when I was in elementary…

— Patty Schemel

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music…

— Robert Trujillo

“The heart is a The thousand-stringed instrument That can only be tuned with Love.”

— Anonymous

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

— Jack Dempsey

“They start setting up on a little left stage playing my secret favorite song: the rustling of sheet music and set lists,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I started playing the drums when I was 10 years old, I think because it was fun. And then when I hit…

— Mitchell Joachim

I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making.…

— Quentin Tarantino

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

— Janis Joplin

We just weren't a hip band. I mean we recorded our second album in Bath at a time when everyone else was…

— Curt Smith

I always wanted to tour with a band.

— Randy Rainbow

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was…

— John Dieterich

You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.

— William James

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new…

— Harry Partch

I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

— Guy Clark

S you know touring is our life, Getting in front of you guys and playing keeps this band Alive.

— Joey Jordison