Music making Quotes · Page 68

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

— Joe Perry

What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

— Isaac Hanson

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

— Ben Howard

We've met people who have been in bands for years and they have said things to us like 'You guys are doing…

— Calum Hood

The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is…

— Julian Bream

To me to singing is like a freedom. It's a very therapeutic thing. It's incredible. I can just lose myself. It's sort…

— Lisa Stansfield

We're not complete prodigies musically and as a band together it takes more and more work to find something new and special.

— Justin Chancellor

I have been trained for three years in Hindustani classical music. I keep humming and many Bollywood co-stars have been victimized by…

— Amrita Rao

I've heard stories of pickup bands that can't follow, but here's the thing: If you want to play with Chuck Berry, you…

— Daryl Davis

I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or…

— Roddy Woomble

I don't think it's important to be that good at singing. I think people who are good at singing sing backing vocals…

— Robbie Williams

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group…

— Fred Frith

My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may…

— Gordon Lightfoot

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up…

— Albert Einstein

I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an…

— William Hung

Klaus from the Teddybears, Bloodshy and Avant and Mike Snow, they've done lots of Britney Spears production. They went backwards from production…

— Diplo

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal…

— Megan Thee Stallion

We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.

— Rick Nielsen

I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and…

— Christian Fennesz

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

— Florence Welch

Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.

— Isaac Hanson

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along…

— Audra McDonald

I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand…

— Mats Wilander

I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world.

— David Bryan

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

— Lars Ulrich

Singing has always been an important part of my life and I have always loved singing.

— Sara Khan

“singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’ ‘really?’ Ruth said, amazed, ‘How did that happen?’…

— Francine Rivers

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

— John Burnside

“Grown-ups everywhere are learning the instrument to relieve stress, focus their minds – and for the sheer joy it brings.”

— Anonymous

When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while…

— Gabriella Wilson

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

— Carolyn Porco

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

— Nuno Bettencourt

We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.

— Grace Chatto

I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of…

— Charlie Heaton

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

— Ad-Rock

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was…

— Richard Llewellyn

In 'Boondien' I worked with a band where everyone had their own instrument to play.

— Mohit Chauhan

Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.

— India Arie