Music making Quotes · Page 74

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are…

— Steve Albini

Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band…

— Liam Payne

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

— Wayne Static

I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.

— Lizzy Plapinger

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Life has been going and going on. the side of myself - and the side of the dudes - that no one…

— Hayley Williams

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

— Gene Simmons

I suppose you have to be careful what you sing, because you might have to do it.

— Lisa Stansfield

I believe in singing.

— Brian Eno

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

— Lenny Kravitz

My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian…

— Bradford Cox

All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it…

— Walt Whitman

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

— Javed Ali

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records…

— Ray Stevens

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith…

— Charlie Watts

Getting old, getting grey, getting ripped off, under paid. Getting sold, second hand, that's how it goes, playing in a band.

— ACDC

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of…

— Eugene Chadbourne

That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it…

— Sebastian Bach

Practice. Listen. Use you ears. And as Rob [Halford] said, that team effort. You can learn your instrument in your room, but…

— Richie Faulkner

As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the…

— Glenn Kotche

I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band…

— Steven Van Zandt

I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally…

— Nelson Shanks

My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I've been singing since I was five. It's my identity.

— Art Garfunkel

In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is…

— Carl Flesch

Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.

— Mike Kruger

I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are…

— Hayley Williams

When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player.…

— Bryce Dessner

You don't fully appreciate your band until you're away from them.

— Rob Halford

It's really hard to name a band.

— Riki Lindhome

“I'm cool either way, I just need to know which instrument to pull out.”

— S.C. Stephens

We're working out, watching Netflix and learning to play instruments. I think we're doing a lot of self-development, and also just trying…

— J-Hope

It's easy to record songs. Anyone can make a track on garage band. I've been on the search to find that incredibly…

— Grace Kelly

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

— Ben Jackson

The Heart Is The Only Broken Instrument That Works, Without Any Repairing For Years !!

— #StylixAkkshay

“Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

— Marc Ribot

I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's…

— Tommy Lee

There are so many bands I am starting to see: Waterparks, Potty Mouth - they're all garage bands that started in the…

— Benji Madden