Music making Quotes · Page 61

“Officially, we didn’t have a band leader. Unofficially, we all knew it was Tony [Iommi].”

— Ozzy Osbourne

“Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods…

— Deke Sharon

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do…

— Leon Bridges

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're…

— Robert McKee

For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

— Ben Weinman

I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.

— James Mercer

A writers soul is an instrument of music that plays the songs in the shadows of life and paints the secret things…

— Doreen F Graves

People don't come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just…

— Finneas

In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only…

— Dianne Reeves

I finally got to junior high and I got to start saxophone. There were a few of us that were in the…

— Jon Gordon

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric…

— Leo Kottke

I remember when our first album came out. After one of our gigs, we went across the border to Mexico and the…

— Dusty Hill

Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been…

— Olivia d'Abo

I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing…

— Ronnie Milsap

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in…

— Suzy Kassem

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how…

— Marnie Stern

I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the…

— Johan Hegg

My role in AC/DC is to keep time and to drive the band as much as I can. That's a drummer's role…

— Chris Slade

A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments -…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

— Debbie Harry

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

— Dizzy Gillespie

Singing is definitely something I'm not good at. I wish I could be good at it, but that's a skill I definitely…

— Daniel Ricciardo

The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can…

— Debby Boone

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

— Nate Ruess

You manage one band and you manage two bands and then you build a business around that.

— Haim Saban

Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to…

— Benji Madden

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

— Samuel Butler

Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.

— Ze Frank

We didn't want to change who we are. We're not going to sit there and go, 'Let's be a rap band now.'

— Charlotte Caffey

Even if you don't sing on your tracks, if you know how to sing, it'll probably help you out.

— SonReal

Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my…

— Minnie Driver

Confession. 3.) My Favorite Band Is One Direction But My Favorite SingerIs Ed Sheeran¥

— Anonymous

I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist…

— Hope Solo

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

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

I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.

— Chino Moreno

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life,…

— Jorja Fox

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

— Christian McKay

In my band, I'm the band leader. As a band leader, our job is to bring harmony to the voices we have…

— Daryl Davis