Music making Quotes · Page 66

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

— Joni Mitchell

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in…

— Wallace Shawn

When I was a kid, every street had a band, and we'd steal members from each other.

— Ian Gillan

Weve always done a bunch of musically diverse things. We were just showing a broader side of the band, the more melodic…

— Dimebag Darrell

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

— Jonathan Davis

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not,…

— George Brecht

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able…

— Bruce Springsteen

“The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to…

— Annie Dillard

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments…

— Bill Rancic

... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was…

— Nick Gravenites

In high school no guys wanted to be in a band with me unless I was going to play bass or play…

— Weyes Blood

“I had a dream about you. We were in a band. I was the lead singer, guitar player, saxophonist, harpist, violinist, bassist,…

— Jarod Kintz

You're always discovering other things you're capable of doing if you're out their singing. I just try to stay open to learning…

— Philip Bailey

You go to a studio with a guitar, people are like, 'Oh this girl's going to write this song on a guitar.'…

— LP

I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened…

— James Vincent McMorrow

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that…

— Floor Jansen

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

— Kristin Hersh

I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

— Pat Metheny

I just want a band and keep them working, people that I like and who I think a lot of. Once my…

— Pharoah Sanders

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

— Marcello Giordani

When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's…

— Ian MacKaye

Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

People find it confusing I'm in a band, even though music was my main thing before acting.

— Megan Mullally

Bands work in a way where everyone, at some point, has to have a similar idea of how you do things.

— Chris Cornell

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or…

— Kellin Quinn

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

— Kaci Brown

When you learn to play, you just hold the guitar differently. You can tell when someone's just never held an instrument.

— Monica Barbaro

“Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal?”

— Dada Bhagwan

In the beginning, we were a real good, straight rock 'n' roll band. We were writing quality tunes.

— Eric Carmen

“The lights flickered. The bands laid down their instruments and the crowds made quiety for the door.”

— Amor Towles

Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.

— Dreezy

If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is…

— James Murphy

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

— Steve Young

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and Im always going to want to do it.

— Naturi Naughton

I've always been known for writing lyrics or being in a band but not necessarily for 'Oh, I love that guy's voice!'

— Matthew Koma

You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands.

— Ted Dwane

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

— Rabindranath Tagore

You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a…

— Lindsey Buckingham

I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.

— Sturgill Simpson