Music making Quotes · Page 69

I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

— Zara Larsson

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people…

— Adrian Younge

'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is…

— Ramin Djawadi

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the…

— John Gourley

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and…

— Dwight Yoakam

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an…

— Amanda Palmer

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of…

— John Sebastian

I wasn't looking to be an Indian brass band, but to be a band that reflected my complete identity as an American.…

— Sunny Jain

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar,…

— Kat Dennings

A learning experience for sure. You're always learning in this business. How to work with people and how to handle your band…

— Sherri DuPree

“When I was in high school I wanted to be in the most underground band ever so we didn’t have a name,…

— Christy Leigh Stewart

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years…

— Suzi Quatro

As a teenager, I used to carry the equipment for Gary's band, so I was kind of like his roadie. Every night…

— Martin Kemp

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life…

— Benny Goodman

When I was born, my dad was playing music, so I'm pretty sure he was singing to me in the womb. I…

— Adrianne Lenker

I can rap, I can sing, I can do whatever, you know what I'm saying? I can do rock.

— Trippie Redd

I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.

— Essie Davis

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

— Dan Fogelberg

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

— David Bowie

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to…

— Duke Ellington

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I…

— Steven Wilson

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

— William Shakespeare

My performing and my singing leave much to be desired, but having other people record my songs is the most flattering thing…

— J. J. Cale

Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.

— Hope Sandoval

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension

— J. Robbins

I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

— Paul Westerberg

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played…

— Martina McBride

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the…

— Chuck Brown

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

— JoJo Siwa

“THE BODY, IN AND THROUGH WHICH WE BREATHE, move, communicate and reproduce is an amazing instrument in many varied physical ways.”

— Elaine Seiler

I've always been in a band where it's been somebody else's band - or pretty much always.

— Pat Smear

I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or…

— John 5

I was brought up by my mother, and she is my guru in classical singing. I have trained primarily under her.

— Chinmayi

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

— Bob Dylan

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

— James Blunt

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is…

— Taryn Manning

I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.

— Renee Fleming

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

— Thomas Browne