Music making Quotes · Page 65

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

— McCoy Tyner

So, hopefully, us finding ways to constantly work, but always with a different product, will help our band play to more people…

— Taylor Goldsmith

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you…

— Henry Rollins

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about…

— Flea

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is…

— Mojo Nixon

I worked in a band a long time. As we got older, we became more aware of soul and jazz.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

The guitar was not treated very seriously as a concert recital instrument.

— Julian Bream

We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.

— John Gourley

I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do…

— Sam Smith

My first couple shows, I figured I should be playing the guitar and singing. That felt weird, but I got good at…

— Dominic Fike

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

— Courtney Barnett

At the time of starting this band I was listening to tons of death metal. However, the bands that made me want…

— Mitch Lucker

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

— Drew Carey

It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi…

— Melina Marchetta

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

— Thomas Browne

My family hates my singing voice >.

— She's_gone

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted…

— Daniel Johns

For a band like me I don't really get crazy exposure with the record so sometimes it does take a while to…

— Ryan Bingham

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

— Glenn Miller

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

— Salman Rushdie

I honestly felt sometimes when I was younger that there were maybe constraints within genre, like, 'Oh it's too strange if I…

— Ellie Rowsell

But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The…

— Nick Mason

If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't…

— David Toop

“Charlie smiled. ‘Actually, right now I feel like venting; maybe seeing how loud I can make the speakers in the gym and…

— Trevor Barton

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

— Ronnie Spector

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as…

— Mike Gordon

If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a…

— Charlie Parker

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I…

— Carrie Brownstein

Good evening everybody, my name is Robbie Williams, this is my band and for the next two hours YOUR ASS IS MINE!

— Robbie Williams

When you're co-leading a band with someone whose career is bigger than your own, like with my wife Susan, it's different. You…

— Derek Trucks

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

— Billy Sheehan

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play…

— Frank Fairfield

I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.

— Kevin Parker

Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do.…

— Jeff Rosenstock

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

— Boy George

That's what I tend to do - get into a band, and then it gets busy... and you want to get away…

— Denny Laine

“I’d always wanted to play an instrument myself, but my folks didn’t have the dough to buy me one, and I didn’t…

— Ozzy Osbourne

We just knew that we wanted to be in a band. We wanted to be in a great live band and we…

— Jim Kerr

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

— Kyle Gass

Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.

— Janet Fitch