Music making Quotes · Page 71

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you…

— Stan Getz

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the…

— Alber Elbaz

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at…

— Sharon Jones

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

— Sharon Jones

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

— Manuel de Falla

I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

— Guy Clark

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us…

— Ian Rankin

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

— Colm Meaney

There was a show in Germany called Beat Club, and they had a lot of bands playing live. And I had this…

— Ottmar Liebert

I like to use my voice as an instrument and just play along with the music. That's really how I tend to…

— LeCrae

I'd like to think that people see there's two ways to do things. You can put a lot of money into a…

— Ryan Ross

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were…

— Michael Davis

“When the artist leaves a painting on a wall with the full confidence that the mastery of his skill, soul and vision…

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got…

— Billy Joel

Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our…

— Roger Taylor

I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But,…

— Butterfly Boucher

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in…

— David Cassidy

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the…

— Rick Astley

Our vocal harmonies started to feel like a cop-out: all group-singing, all the time.

— Robin Pecknold

I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.

— D-Pryde

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

— Anonymous

“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

— Samuel Butler

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

— Dan Bejar

“Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.”

— Celine Dion

Dear all the band members I love, Please be careful because you mean so much to me and the band would never…

— Anonymous

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band…

— Rich Brian

Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

— Shusha Guppy

Growing up, watching pop music icons, I never saw a solo artist whose main instrument was drums.

— G Flip

You know, we love what we do, man, and I don't want to be one of those bands that we write an…

— Ivan Moody

A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be:…

— Luke Hemmings

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

— George Santayana

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort…

— Madonna Ciccone

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be…

— Lily Allen

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything…

— Beth Ditto

“The tunes he played on that instrument wouldn't be audible to the living. That didn't mean they wouldn't be real.”

— Seanan McGuire

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good…

— Andrew Ripp

“do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can…

— William Shakespeare

The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours…

— Ed Kowalczyk