Music making Quotes · Page 63

A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing…

— Andy Biersack

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect…

— Adrian Smith

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a…

— Elton John

[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes.…

— Marilyn vos Savant

Being a little kid, I'd sit at whatever instrument, and I always preffered making stuff up as opposed to learning other people's…

— Alex G

Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I've been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of…

— Chesney Hawkes

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly,…

— Mike McCready

For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something…

— Andrea Bocelli

I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the…

— Jonny Greenwood

“How is slippery ice like music? A: If you don’t C sharp, you’ll B flat. Q: How do you make a band…

— Joe Kozlowski

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I…

— Jim Capaldi

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or…

— Chip Esten

If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and…

— Jacob Bannon

“He found himself thinking about his childhood. "Why do you drink so much, Maestro?" "This is not a music question." "Are you…

— Mitch Albom

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became…

— Gunther Schuller

I wasn't learning to sing because I thought I could; I was learning to sing because I knew I couldn't.

— Tom Junod

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

— Martin Kemp

“First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.”

— Charlie Parker

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

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

— Max Roach

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox…

— Chino Moreno

I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental…

— Vidyasagar

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

— John Darnielle

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

— Charles Ives

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore…

— Mat McNerney

I've never played instruments. I've always been a singer or a writer, for that matter. But I started playing in bands when…

— Ivan Moody

“He who lives for an encounter with the unseen becomes the instrument of the seen.”

— Paul Auster

For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

— Jack Antonoff

I've never wanted to do something that wouldn't be fulfilling, so behind the music and the singing, I love being happy.

— Benson Boone

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

— Ram Dass

Even if you're the biggest band in the world, there's probably something else you want.

— James Righton

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

We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?

— Eddie Izzard

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.

— Keith Urban

Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.

— Paul Gilbert

It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring…

— Jerry Harrison

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

— Lisa Ann Sandell

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying…

— Nat Wolff

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

— Mandy Moore