At 10 years old, I was in my church band, playing in front of a couple thousand people every week. — Bazzi Copy Share Image
As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different… — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically. — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record. — Bruce McCulloch Copy Share Image
I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I worked for several years composing music for commercials, but I was very happy to give that up.… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
It's how I learned to play guitar - sitting with Led Zeppelin and Cheap Trick records, backing the needle up and learning… — Tad Kubler Copy Share Image
Bands like Culture Club and artists like me, you tend to concentrate on the live arena because that's where you can be… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put… — James Durbin Copy Share Image
The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When you're a musician and you come from a singing background, specifically one that focused a lot on a cappella music as… — Nick Lachey Copy Share Image
When you're a front man for a band, there's nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out… — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I could make music out of anything, whether it be a rubber band, a tin can. Whatever… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt. — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
When I started out as a cover band, I was obsessed with Keith Urban and Jason Aldean and Eric Church; those are… — Chris Lane Copy Share Image
There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know. — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
“Every band is allowed to do things how they want - including getting on stage in pink pasiley suits and doing TIP… — Hanako Stephens Copy Share Image
That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in… — Chris Cheney Copy Share Image
In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the… — Pedro Reyes Copy Share Image
There's no one songwriter in the band. It's collaborative, and we all have different tastes. — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I always harmonise when I sing along to music - it's ridiculous, but I can't help myself. — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
I'll get a few words and then go back to the music and then back to words, and play them off each… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
I do ultimately wanna go back to Broadway and do live theater; I wanna act. But singing is my love. I feel… — Tevin Campbell Copy Share Image
One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences. — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument. — McCoy Tyner Copy Share Image
I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't know I can sing because I don't, like, post it everywhere. — Sarah Hyland Copy Share Image
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of… — Marian Anderson Copy Share Image
When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do. — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
When you write or sing a song that means something to you, you are saying, 'You know what? This is who I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image