Music making Quotes · Page 86

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

— Matisyahu

“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument…

— Anonymous

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

— Ritchie Blackmore

When I was growing up everybody I knew could sing. I had no choice. I had to sing.

— Anne Murray

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in…

— Chad Smith

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

— Dick Dale

When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not…

— Nainoa Thompson

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

— Ofra Haza

I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with…

— Seungri

A lot of electronic-based musicians give very low-risk performances, and it's fun to hear your favorite band play live on a big…

— How to Dress Well

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle.…

— Cecilia Bartoli

I would love to compose more fantasy music, whether it's for a film or a game. That genre has so much opportunity…

— Jason Graves

Spending eight to ten hours every single day practicing the instrument, starting from an early age, makes an instrumentalist spend his/her lifetime…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill…

— Anonymous

Kids don't want to hear the same record. There are a hundred million bands that they could listen to; you want to…

— Chad Gilbert

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it…

— Jay Kay

I think central to what we do is thinking about what's our role, how does this idea of being a band and…

— Andy Gill

I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my…

— Chris Daughtry

Playing out in a band all the time at least you made money. Even if you have a hit song, it takes…

— J. J. Cale

On 'Kaputt,' singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band's sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his…

— Anthony Fantano

Music is how I unwind. I love going to see bands or DJs at a festival or a dive bar. My taste…

— Daniel Ricciardo

I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.

— Rick Moranis

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

— Gregory Colbert

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

— Nick Mason

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument…

— Joe Zawinul

“To play in an orchestra, we need not master every instrument. We must simply learn to play our own. But first, we…

— Vironika Tugaleva

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

— Stephen Malkmus

I was raised in the church and liked singing in the background. I never really wanted to be the main attraction, and…

— Tevin Campbell

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

— Alex Winston

I'm into a lot of music. I used to dabble in electric guitar, but not in a band or anything.

— Chace Crawford

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want.

— Jonathan Meiburg

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

— Amanda Seyfried

There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.

— Kelela

Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

— Rachel Stevens

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm singing. I…

— Maureen McGovern

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who…

— Roddy Woomble

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

— Beck

all which isn't singing is mere talking ... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and…

— e. e. cummings

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.

— John Petrucci