Music making Quotes · Page 85

...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !...

— John Sebastian

When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it…

— Phoebe Bridgers

I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?

— Hoda Kotb

Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.

— Johann Johannsson

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to…

— Alison Krauss

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the…

— Joan Armatrading

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

— Renee Fleming

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

— Bill Vaughan

I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get…

— Girl Talk

For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something…

— Andrea Bocelli

“A neurosurgeon once told me about operating on the brain of a young man with epilepsy. As is customary in this kind…

— Wilder Penfield

“The act of singing and dancing is about as true a form of self-expression as we have access to as human beings.…

— Brad Falchuk

We care about equality and democracy within the band and outside the band. For us life is about cooperation and solidarity, not…

— G.W. Sok

I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to…

— Steve Goodier

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a…

— John C. Reilly

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take…

— Alex Newell

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

— Charlotte Caffey

It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.

— Andres Segovia

When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.

— Michael Jackson

“Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, Sings by himself a song. Song of the bleeding throat!”

— Walt Whitman

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

— Michelle Dockery

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

— James Arthur

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

— Bobby McFerrin

I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.

— Keith Moon

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

— Mark Heard

We really broke down some doors for women and for musicians in general. It was just go out and form a band…

— Charlotte Caffey

I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling.

— Rudy Vallee

“But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.”

— Jennifer Haigh

A fantasy of mine is being pulled up onstage by one of my favorite bands and singing or playing an instrument with…

— Tyler Posey

Smooth mellow vibes that touch the soul I love listening to instrumentals I love real hiphop.

— Anonymous

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my…

— Terence Lewis

You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to…

— Ray Charles

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

— Rodney Yee

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

— Irene Thomas

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

— Anthony Kiedis

We Are Not Canceling Our October Tour, The Band Is Not Breaking Up, We Are All Alive.

— Joey Jordison

I sang in bands as a kid. In high school, I was already on the road doing a single. And that's no…

— Lynda Carter

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the…

— Chuck Brown