Music making Quotes · Page 92

I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of…

— Jeremy Fisher

My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every…

— Bibi Bourelly

Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that…

— Sam Hunt

Any musician in any band - for a really good band - you know your part in the band.

— Duff McKagan

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

— Eddie Vedder

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from…

— Mark Hoppus

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good…

— Chris Martin

That moment when you're on you tube singing along and the music stops loading :)

— Anonymous

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the…

— Sylvester Stallone

The jingles saved my life. When I got hired to do that, I was on top. I finally was making a living…

— Mark Foster

I grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and every record those bands put out was very unique in its own…

— Kellin Quinn

There's this thing where Asian parents force you to play an instrument at an early age, but god forbid you like it…

— Michelle Zauner

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them…

— Mel Tillis

In this day and age, though, no matter how many people you play for, if you're playing with a band like Blink,…

— Matt Skiba

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in…

— Suzy Kassem

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how…

— Marnie Stern

Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time…

— Frankie Cosmos

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

— Ringo Starr

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I…

— Dave Grohl

Because I didn't have a band I took electronic music and tried to mix it with indie-punk, and I became a pioneer…

— Peaches

I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.

— Daphne Guinness

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

— Ryan Hurd

To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band.

— Zacky Vengeance

I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play…

— Tim Rutili

If you don't have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you're a bar band. Good rhythm section, you've got a…

— Duff McKagan

The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child.…

— Carlene Carter

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

— GRiZ

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano…

— James Weldon Johnson

Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter.

— Daniel Levitin

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

— Jay London

I've been requested by hundreds of metal bands to be part of their albums or side projects.

— Tarja Turunen

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

— Bernie Worrell

We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV…

— Keren Woodward

I don't want to compromise on my singing or drop down its level to start acting.

— Guru Randhawa

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

— Kurt Elling

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I…

— PJ Harvey

I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in…

— Chrissie Hynde

I feel like I'm a quick learner and I'm also very quick to forget. That's why I can't play an instrument because…

— Joss Stone

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

— Jill Sobule

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

— Charlie Simpson