Music making Quotes · Page 84

With a pop album you can listen to one or two songs from it, but a music album is really an experience.…

— Dylan Baldi

Here's our shtick line to describe our music: It's our garage band attempt at our appreciation of jazz improvisation through the reality…

— John Popper

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

— Harry Connick, Jr

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

— Brian Setzer

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

— Patrick Stump

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

— K'naan

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just…

— Ariana Grande

It caught us by surprise when people started calling us a boy band because we'd always considered ourselves pretty serious musicians.

— Jay DeMarcus

Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been…

— Zedd

I use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it's gonna have all live instruments in it, I'll probably…

— Syd

“Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a…

— Geoffrey O'Brien

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on…

— Stan Getz

When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the…

— Bradford Cox

I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three…

— Richard Pinhas

I love playing guitar every night, and to be at this point where it's like, the songs are done and I'm happy…

— Adam Granduciel

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La…

— Kim Gordon

Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty…

— Chris Frantz

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.

— Anonymous

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on…

— Leighton Meester

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to…

— Suzanne Ciani

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps…

— Tony Levin

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the…

— Carla Bley

I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a…

— Syd

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

— Bill Kreutzmann

At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument…

— Martie Maguire

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

— Marianne Faithfull

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about…

— Trilok Gurtu

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

— St. Vincent

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

— Alessia Cara

The days of the NME being like, 'This is your new favorite band, and here's one song' - that's over.

— Matty Healy

It's a very satisfying feeling for everyone involved into giving bands a new life - for me, the artists, and the audience.

— Veronica Vasicka

Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.

— Dove Cameron

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

— Jeff VanderMeer

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I…

— Gustavo Dudamel

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.

— Matt Squire

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a…

— Clay Aiken

“A great band name would be Tickling Whiskers. Especially if the lead singer is a cat. I’d love to audition for backup…

— Jarod Kintz

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Before I was in the band, I was a bricklayer, a cement mixer and a messenger. I did a lot of odds…

— Marky Ramone

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

— Florence Welch