Music making Quotes · Page 100

I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little…

— Z'EV

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

— Roger Bannister

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my…

— Flea

My mom wasn't thrilled about me being in a band, because she very correctly said she couldn't see any sort of stability…

— Caroline Polachek

A rock band with vocals is what I always wanted to be a part of; in fact, it feels very natural for…

— Paul Gilbert

One of these mornings youre goin to rise up singing. Then youll spread your wings and youll take the sky.

— Ella Fitzgerald

I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense…

— Hayley Kiyoko

I think one of the reasons people are so passionate about our band is because we're so accessible.

— Chad Gilbert

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It…

— Peter Tork

We are four sisters and when we joined the industry we were outsiders and we did not know anyone in the industry.…

— Neeti Mohan

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind…

— Stevie Nicks

Yeah, it's a kind of weird thing because I don't define myself as an electronic musician. It's certainly a part of it,…

— Bonobo

My brother was in high school and he had a garage band going, but no one would sing. They were covering a…

— Mitch Lucker

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the…

— Chris Carmack

Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A…

— Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

We can do many different things as a band. But that doesn't mean we should do that. If we did all we're…

— Alissa White-Gluz

Some people would say, 'Nah, he's just a YouTube kid.' But I sing, play instruments; I can mix, master, and engineer -…

— William Singe

What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

— Bill Vaughan

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well,…

— Don McLean

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing…

— Jill Scott

I want to experiment and include different elements of the music-making process in a song.

— Harrdy Sandhu

Sometimes you feel like you're working all alone out there as a band and you have no soulmates in how you see…

— Russell Mael

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

— Stacy Martin

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

— Linda Ronstadt

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good…

— Marisa Tomei

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and…

— Joan Jett

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I started doing musical theatre when I was six years old. It was all I ever wanted to do - my mother…

— Myha'la

My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior…

— Miles Teller

Actually, my first professional job was singing opera with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

— Brett Cooper

When you make a record, you get to live in an imaginary world where you have the best kind of band on…

— Adam Granduciel

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

— John Gourley

So, hopefully, us finding ways to constantly work, but always with a different product, will help our band play to more people…

— Taylor Goldsmith

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another…

— Zachary Cole Smith

And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.

— Donna Jo Napoli

Younger bands are into jerking off and we're into fucking. That's all there is to it!

— Aerosmith

I am trying to keep my voice in order. Basically not talking much in the van throughout the day to preserve it,…

— Dan Mangan

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

— Ted Lange

Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors,…

— Kevin Jonas