Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together. — Josh Silver Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
It feels like being in a band is a luxury now: like you can only do it if you're signed really early… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I've demanded respect for myself and my band and my peers, I've demanded full artistic control for my music, I advocate for… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
When Prince and James Brown were doing live sessions... recording a band is not easy. It's all delicate, important stuff you want… — Amine Copy Share Image
The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music,… — Hafez Nazeri Copy Share Image
It's rare that I'll write lyrics first. If I come up with some good lyrics, I'll write them down and try to… — Rob Crow Copy Share Image
One of my best friends in the world is Lars Frederiksen. He plays guitar for a band called Rancid. — CM Punk Copy Share Image
We had so many hit singles, and usually right in a row, that we tended to be dismissed again by our detractors… — Richard Carpenter Copy Share Image
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my… — Zac Brown Copy Share Image
When you're on stage and you got a great audience, that makes the show that much better for the band. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite… — Tracey Thorn Copy Share Image
You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch. — John Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going. — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
My mom and sisters liked to sing and we would jam at home very often. I would also jam a lot in… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
When you're pregnant, things - at least for me - get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
Make sure that your song is fun and catchy. Make sure that you enjoy singing, and drink tea. — Raven-Symone Copy Share Image
Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony. — Kavita Ramdas Copy Share Image
“How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost” — Greg Hamerton Copy Share Image
I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling. — Michael Giles Copy Share Image
The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been… — Laura Marano Copy Share Image
As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums. — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school,… — Mike Tucker Copy Share Image
I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that. — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
