Music making Quotes · Page 94

I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best…

— Stephanie Zimbalist

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

— Sunny Mabrey

That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it…

— Sebastian Bach

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

— Robert Moog

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and…

— Pixie Lott

We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people.

— David Bryan

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

— Tommy Shaw

If I can't connect emotionally with the music I'm making, there's no point making it in the first place.

— Sunny Ozell

I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments.…

— Squarepusher

I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I…

— Dick Dale

“Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin…

— Mitch Albom

I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it…

— Christian Fennesz

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels…

— Kevin Spacey

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It…

— Chord Overstreet

I've been working in music since I was a little kid. I would do background singing in my dad's studio all the…

— King Princess

If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely…

— Courtney Love

There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.

— Sebastian Bach

With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.

— Tarja Turunen

I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to…

— Erin O'Connor

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

— Pete Seeger

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just…

— Justin Bieber

In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!

— Jim Diamond

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.

— Stjepan Hauser

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music…

— Robert Trujillo

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band…

— Steven Adler

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

— Billie Holiday

My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.

— Mayer Hawthorne

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

— Lars Ulrich

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

— King Tuff

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

— Elton John

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs…

— Page McConnell

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of…

— PSY

Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be…

— Rumi

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that…

— Bobby Vinton

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

— Chad Kroeger

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

— Caroline Corr

I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had…

— Kevin Parker

I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

— Andy Partridge

Bands speak for us in this inevitable way that you can't get anywhere else because it is this perfect balance of artistic…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I think that the more that you play and the more instruments you play and the better you get at them, then…

— Matt Skiba