Music making Quotes · Page 91

“The band had morphed into another sweet melancholy song. "I'm Not Supposed To Love You Anymore." If that wasn't the voice of…

— Kristan Higgins

I have never been vocal about my singing abilities, but I am always ready to present my dancing skills.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if…

— Edith Piaf

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a…

— Gloria Gaynor

I think I'm going to do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. I definitely want to sing someday, though.…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

“The bands of color in a rainbow remind me of my band, Bands of Color. We’re not very musical, but we sure…

— Jarod Kintz

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.

— Gwen Stefani

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I…

— Carrie Brownstein

If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among…

— Cotton Mather

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her…

— Lindsey Buckingham

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one…

— David Byrne

“Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure,…

— Honore de Balzac

When I go into rehearsal rooms and meet with bands, they're genuinely excited to be with me because of what I've done…

— Nikki Sixx

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time…

— Gretchen Wilson

I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a…

— Patrick Stump

Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as…

— Chad Kroeger

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

— Mick Jagger

I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.

— Emilia Clarke

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

— Jim Root

Remember kids: Don't get emotionally attached to a band. You'll get pregnant and die.

— Ashton Irwin

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

— Leonid Andreyev

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the…

— John Petrucci

“Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop”

— Vanessa Vanney Thompson

'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

— James Murphy

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

— Stevie Jackson

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more…

— Rob Halford

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

— Julie Andrews

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

— Andrew Bird

People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first.

— Dennis DeYoung

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

— Evelyn Glennie

I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.

— Paul Rodgers

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

— Prince Philip

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

— Matt Nathanson

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.

— Naturi Naughton

Even before we had a band, the merging of music and movies just seemed so perfect.

— Ron Mael

Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test…

— Joey Kramer

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

— Henry Rollins

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like…

— Dave Grohl

Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone…

— Henry Mancini

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin