Music making Quotes · Page 80

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.

— Stjepan Hauser

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to…

— Duke Ellington

For every band that writes something earth-shatteringly important, there has to be a band you can go out and drink beer to.

— Jani Lane

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

— June Millington

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we…

— Eicca Toppinen

We're not complete prodigies musically and as a band together it takes more and more work to find something new and special.

— Justin Chancellor

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

— Layne Staley

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking…

— B. B. King

I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't…

— Jack Garratt

I've always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It's the ultimate instrument, there's this whole level of virtuosity and…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions…

— Olivia Holt

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing…

— Lisa Loeb

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You…

— Stephen Colbert

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm…

— Khalid

When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in…

— Joe Bonamassa

I started performing with my dad's band when I was quite young and participated in singing competitions as well. By the time…

— Jonita Gandhi

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have…

— Kevin Spacey

Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a…

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and…

— Ananya Birla

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

— Linda Ronstadt

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I…

— Dave Grohl

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

— Roger Taylor

“Pushing thoughts of spanking and Simon from my mind, I went back to my DVDs. Spanking Simon. What a great name for…

— Alice Clayton

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

— Nikki Jean

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I…

— Tommy Shaw

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two…

— J. Cole

I was in higher secondary when I participated in 'Indian Idol.' I was also learning singing at the Suresh Wadekar Institute.

— Rahul Vaidya

We just knew that we wanted to be in a band. We wanted to be in a great live band and we…

— Jim Kerr

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

— ACDC

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not…

— Nick Jonas

Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.

— Lucy Dacus

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an…

— Amanda Palmer

That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not…

— Liam Gallagher

“Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.”

— Flannery O'Connor

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

— Coco Lee

My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.

— Urmila Matondkar

“Anything with drums, bass, and guitars is under the pop umbrella. We'll continue to try new sounds as long as we're a…

— Patrick Stump

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of…

— Lenny Kravitz

When we were growing up, Russell and I were into The Who, The Move, The Kinks, early Pink Floyd, really good tight…

— Ron Mael

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a…

— Atif Aslam