Music making Quotes · Page 6

I wish I had a great singing voice.

— Mandy Ingber

To sing is to pray twice.

— Saint Augustine

We are but as the instrument of Heaven.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

I came to singing organically.

— Alice Smith

When you have nothing to say, sing it.

— David Ogilvy

I think I do better when I sing.

— Ella Fitzgerald

I believe in singing.

— Brian Eno

I'm Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.

— Eddie Vedder

I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.

— Ringo Starr

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.

— Noel Coward

I am going to sing into my 60s and 70s and 80s, if I can.

— Jamie Park

I've always enjoyed singing as a hobby and an antidepressant.

— Jenny Ryan

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

— Drew Carey

I've been singing all of my life, one way or another.

— Adrian Dunbar

Things I'm bad at: singing. Things I do a lot: sing.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.

— KiKi Layne

As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

— Matt Bellamy

I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.

— Stevie Jackson

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school,…

— Mike Tucker

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it…

— Alison Krauss

Make sure that your song is fun and catchy. Make sure that you enjoy singing, and drink tea.

— Raven-Symone

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter…

— Pliny the Elder

“How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost”

— Greg Hamerton

I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally…

— Nelson Shanks

I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're…

— John Rzeznik

My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for…

— Ronnie Montrose

In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but…

— Alan Cohen

I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you…

— Gary Numan

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who…

— Robert Wyatt

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down…

— Tom Petty

Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6…

— Andy Biersack

Singing was never my thing.

— Deborah Joy Winans

I play guitar; I can sing a little bit.

— Joshua Henry

My love of singing is hereditary.

— Susan Boyle

I'm very much a one-man-band.

— Randy Rainbow

This is a bands name

— Anonymous

Singing is incredibly physical.

— Hugh Jackman

I usually sing when I'm by myself.

— Chyler Leigh

I would love to sing opera.

— Leona Lewis