Music making Quotes · Page 101

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick…

— Bill Bruford

I think singing is such an important and incredible art form and it is quite undervalued at times.

— Katie Melua

We can be a rock band if want to be. We can be an electronic group if we want to be. We…

— Russell Mael

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

— Lee Konitz

We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey…

— Dolores O'Riordan

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

— Justin Adams

I grew up in Southern California. I played in rock bands out here, and I've been around pop music my whole life.…

— Scott Borchetta

Maybe that is something the people need to start discussing again, the image of a band.

— Jesse Rutherford

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was…

— Gemma Arterton

“In the years since, I learned that when I am missing Berk or Asta, I can play my tears through my instruments.…

— Krista McGee

When we first started as a band we knew we could all sing and we took harmonies from Mayday Parade which doesn't…

— Luke Hemmings

“A teenage girl creaming while she listens to some boy-band, a monk digging on the God he hears in Gregorian chants, or…

— Tad Williams

There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart…

— Alice Sebold

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life,…

— Trey Anastasio

I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I…

— Victoria Clark

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional…

— Gary Burton

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made…

— Max Roach

I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers,…

— Christian Louboutin

It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.

— Emily Blunt

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how…

— Nina Simone

To me, finding sounds, or even recording, is a compositional process. The studio is kind of an instrument.

— Mike Patton

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

— Miley Cyrus

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music…

— Dhani Harrison

The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.

— Flume

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

— Stevie Jackson

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

— James Murphy

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

— Vanessa Vanney Thompson

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

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

— Leonid Andreyev

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

— Ashton Irwin

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

— Dennis DeYoung

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

— Andrew Bird

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

— Julie Andrews

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

— Rob Halford

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

— Ron Mael

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

— Naturi Naughton

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

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

— Prince Philip

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

— Paul Rodgers

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

— Evelyn Glennie