Music making Quotes · Page 67

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think…

— Graham Coxon

I'm trying to get better at singing. I just want to be great vocally on stage so I can give fans a…

— Bryson Tiller

The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.

— Aaron Dessner

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

— James Bay

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records…

— Will Oldham

Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.

— Lee Ann Womack

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

— Lykke Li

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I…

— Alison Moyet

We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to…

— Theresa Wayman

On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on…

— Lesley Gore

The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find…

— Pete Seeger

There's a good sarcasm and a camaraderie that comes after being in a band. And we've known each other forever. We've never…

— Kelly Jones

The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart…

— Brian Eno

“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how to play (though yes, I do know how to play the keys), but…

— Lebo Grand

Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your…

— Bruno Mars

Basically we would go to places and we would see bands trying to sound like us opening up for us, 1-2-3-4 with…

— Marky Ramone

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

— June Millington

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write…

— Adam Jones

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

— Mandy Moore

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail…

— Cassandra Wilson

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part…

— DJ Spooky

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

— Mark Foster

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is…

— Steve Vai

It's a really unique experience to have a band that's a 12 piece working together as one mind.

— Susan Tedeschi

I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love…

— Benji Madden

For every band that writes something earth-shatteringly important, there has to be a band you can go out and drink beer to.

— Jani Lane

Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

— Clarence Clemons

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

— Wynton Marsalis

I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of…

— R. Kelly

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what…

— Taylor Momsen

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on…

— Ruben Blades

Its your wish to be an instrument of change or an observer of change. I'll rather be an instrument of change.

— Melchor Lim

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

— Billie Holiday

I think for a band like us, we're all really close friends. We grew up and went to school together. We're not…

— Luke Hemmings

“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.”

— Pete Hamill

You know, I've always wanted this, to be playing music and making money and all. But, it is really weird.

— Gina Schock

Instead, of worrying if something will be a hit, bands need to go out and make good music, get a following, play…

— Jaimoe

Music is my soul, and I love singing and dancing, but being on the road is not a real way of life…

— Ashley Roberts

Any band that you have, any relationship in your life, is gonna come with moments of tension.

— Robert Trujillo

My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men…

— Sia