Music making Quotes · Page 78

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

— Dan Auerbach

We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

— The Rev

What is a seemingly conservative Englishman doing, leading the world in the mastery of a classically Spanish instrument? Debussy wrote some of…

— Julian Bream

If music ever needs FDA approval in the future, bands like this will be the reason why; Magic Kids' sugar-coated songs paint…

— Anthony Fantano

It was tough to end a band that you've been in for 10 years.

— James Righton

We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up…

— Ramin Djawadi

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin

“You'll never harmonize if everyone is singing the same note.”

— L.B. Wilson

The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I sing in the reaches. We'll see what we find

— Moby

It seems that singing is the only thing I've been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!

— Judith Durham

People in bands should have a responsibility not to moan, not to complain about being in bands. Things could be a lot…

— James Righton

I spend time editing and massaging each note. Then I start layering with different instruments, adding harmonies, counterpoint, and whatever the song…

— Jason Becker

I've been singing since I could talk.

— Peaches

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

— Evelyn Glennie

“You can’t become a famous garage band if you never perform outside your garage. That’s why my band plays in my driveway.”

— Jarod Kintz

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

— Bill Vaughan

“A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wave bands for…

— Douglas Adams

I'm rarely singing in English.

— Renee Fleming

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write…

— David Ives

When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers…

— Bobby Womack

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

— John Cale

Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as…

— Chad Kroeger

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

— James Galway

I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making…

— Jack Garratt

My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this…

— Iwan Rheon

“Jeff Ament: The minute we started rehearsing and Ed started singing -- which was within an hour of him landing in Seattle…

— Mark Yarm

My favorite singer is Canton Jones, a gospel hip-hop artist - when I'm on the bus going to a game, I listen…

— Maya Moore

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to…

— Miles Davis

I love hip-hop, so what I do is done with respect, but there was a very closed-minded attitude toward live instruments and…

— Everlast

When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it…

— Phoebe Bridgers

“We are not written for one instrument alone.”

— André Aciman

After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful…

— Panda Bear

My main professional experience is touring in a rock band.

— Bryce Dessner

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

— Mel Torme

My uncle was in a ska band called the Top Cats; that was my first proper influence, as I was taken to…

— King Krule

I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't…

— Laura Mvula

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first…

— Alvin Lee

The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet…

— Noel Gallagher

I'm really loud. I can't sing softly.

— Chris Young