Music making Quotes · Page 74

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need,…

— Ronnie Hawkins

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV…

— Maxwell

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play…

— Jimmy Page

It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust.…

— Kim Gordon

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

— Johnny Colt

It's 2019. People aren't going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record.

— Nita Strauss

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

— M. Jayachandran

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my…

— Garth Greenwell

If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The…

— Ian MacKaye

We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come…

— Elisabeth Moss

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am.…

— Andrea Bocelli

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I…

— Bruce Springsteen

As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the…

— Kamasi Washington

When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on…

— Eric Cantona

Mumford & Sons have really opened up everyone's ears to music with instruments again, acoustic-based music... it's reassuring for people like me…

— Ben Howard

I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.

— Blake Shelton

My life a stage I need her just to stand on it. Everyday she look back, I toss a band on it.

— Rick Ross

I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!

— Anonymous

I grew up dancing and singing, and I pool together my life experience and relationships and put it into work.

— Ashley Roberts

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

— Bruno Mars

One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever…

— Chris Lowe

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

— Phil Collins

I make sure that everyone on the team and in my band really love music. They live for music, and it's our…

— Jade Bird

“But it was late. We had to go home. We listened to the river singing, the river singing stone.”

— Myrna Peña-Reyes

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

— Robert Smith

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

— Mattew Nicholls

Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played... We were becoming tighter and tighter, to…

— Jimmy Page

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different…

— John Frusciante

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

— Christopher Masterson

“God calls His people to celebrate Him with singing and playing, and then He promises to do a little drumming of His…

— Terry Law

For me, singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

— Edith Piaf

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that…

— Tom Waits

I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar…

— Robbie Robertson

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

— Grimes

I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.

— Johan Renck

I started taking part in college competitions... my first-ever performance with a band was in McDonald's, and I got Rs 500. I…

— Atif Aslam

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's…

— Chris Cornell

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and…

— M. Shadows