Music making Quotes · Page 81

Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous…

— Walter Gropius

I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.

— Daniel Powter

When you're in a band, it's a close-knit thing. There's a lot of emotional stuff.

— Duff McKagan

When you're a musician, you are around your peers a lot, like Slipknot and Alice In Chains... you name the band. We're…

— Duff McKagan

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited…

— Bob Dylan

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

— Phil Lesh

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

— Lucy Dacus

I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to…

— Fred Armisen

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since…

— Anton Yelchin

I'm more of an actor than a musician. I've made a little name for myself as an actor, but I also front…

— Todd Lowe

Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an…

— Walter Russell

I think a "song" is, like, just play it on the guitar and sing it. You look out and see thousands of…

— Andrew Wyatt

There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz…

— Alexandre Desplat

Initially, I didn't start out to be a member of a band. I wanted to make films, write plays, books. When I…

— Jim Morrison

When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio.…

— Georgia Nott

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you…

— Dexter Holland

The Go-Go's were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.

— Charlotte Caffey

“For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;”

— Edmund Spenser

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

— Kristian Bush

It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.

— Jerome Hines

I feel far more connected to the whole band if I can somehow physically respond... with my body.

— Kimbra

Writing songs about having a nice time - 'Oh I'm so happy on tour with my band' - I'd find it really…

— Sigrid

I like the power and versatility of a big band and how an orchestra can vary the dynamics from very loud to…

— Kurt Elling

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

— Andrew Bird

A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.

— Tyler Joseph

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

— Alice Clayton

Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

— Kailash Kher

Singing karaoke is my worst nightmare. But in the car, I rock out to anything Bon Jovi or Beastie Boys.

— Adam F. Goldberg

I really try to find inspiration in all band's I've toured with because everyone's up there doing their own thing and captivating…

— Maria Brink

“You play 30 instruments. What's the toughest? Drums, just because I don't get to play them a whole lot. I”

— Anonymous

All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to…

— John 5

I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might…

— Paul Washer

Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects…

— John McLaughlin

Writing songs, making music, and singing is important to me, and I do all three.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire…

— Jessica Pare

I was never a sit-in-the-audience-type person. Even as a little kid, when I saw a band performing at a restaurant, I would…

— Scarlett Bordeaux

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

— Ben Vereen

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have…

— Lewis Mumford

“We are the instruments of genius, yet more the rhythm and less the drum as each expanding beat arises.”

— Heather K. O'Hara

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

— Bobby McFerrin