Music making Quotes · Page 88

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

— Kate Smith

The band is all about 'party'; we're a glam band. To turn it into something else... it hasn't worked.

— Jani Lane

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

— Anonymous

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that…

— Stella McCartney

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it…

— Annaleigh Ashford

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

— Miles Davis

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

— Richard Strauss

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all…

— Patrick Wolf

I feel so lucky to have found two other, now three other musicians, that I can absolutely communicate with musically and believe…

— Theresa Wayman

I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week -…

— Veronica Vasicka

I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was…

— R. Carlos Nakai

The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest…

— Reed Mullin

There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some…

— Dave Grohl

You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the…

— Paul Rodgers

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the…

— Roy Wood

I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative…

— Jason Mantzoukas

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

— Nicolas Cage

Singing is something I've always loved - I'm not sure what I would do without it!

— Kate Nash

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

— Kurt Elling

“I’m a one-man show. I need to start a band. You wanna join? Too bad! What about one-man band don’t you understand?”

— Jarod Kintz

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

— Duff McKagan

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

— Thomas Bernhard

I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is…

— Sammy Hagar

I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let…

— Lenny Kravitz

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

— Paul McCartney

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 started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.

— Tim Commerford

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing…

— Ali Akbar Khan

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

— Angus Young

I was in a party band in the early '80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and…

— Robert Trujillo

I love working with my band-mates in Alkaline Trio, but to make a rock record that was just mine was something that…

— Matt Skiba

I started in a band called Timbiriche, we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.

— Paulina Rubio

Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and…

— Billy West

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing…

— Bill Callahan

We wrote some songs. We had a band name. We asked ourselves, 'What else do cool bands have? A theme.'

— Jesse Rutherford

I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just…

— Britney Spears

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

— Cassandra Clare

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to…

— Bruno Mars

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and…

— Carlisle Floyd