Music making Quotes · Page 21

I've always had a fascination for instruments.

— Koffee

We used to really feel like the band was our family.

— Chris Frantz

We just want to be a band and play good music.

— Ronnie Van Zant

“The instrument to break our ego is known as worldly life!”

— Dada Bhagwan

Never too poor. You don't have to be a millionaire to pick up an instrument.

— Anonymous

I started in a covers band with my brothers when I was just four years old.

— Sara Evans

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

— Winston Marshall

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

— Billy Corgan

Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

— Cecil Taylor

I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.

— Zoe Leonard

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz…

— Artie Shaw

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

— Dimebag Darrell

I was extremefrom skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band, I did it all, and all…

— Pink

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

— Chad Smith

“The Zangiacomo band was not making music; it was simply murdering silence with a vulgar, ferocious energy.”

— Joseph Conrad

Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I…

— Martin Luther

I'm experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don't look at these concerts as a platform for people…

— Lenny Kravitz

If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a…

— Mick Fleetwood

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians…

— Branford Marsalis

Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always…

— Jacob Latimore

“I was never one to pull a band aid off slowly. Besides, we could be struck by lightning right now and I…

— Natasha Boyd

“golden tunnel. Light poured out of it and washed over me, and something close to singing reached my ears. Heartbreakingly beautiful singing.…

— J.R. Rain

I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the…

— Dave Barry

When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it…

— Lindsey Buckingham

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

— Bill Hicks

I've always been a band guy. That's my wheelhouse. That's what I do.

— Frankie Ballard

I just want to play music with a band, live.

— Jessica Mauboy

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

— Marilyn Monroe

My grandma used to sing. I feel like it's in our blood!

— Ava Max

The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.

— Danny Carey

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

— Chino Moreno

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

— Anne Bradstreet

I get excited when I sing in a new language.

— Javed Ali

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

Part of being in a band is getting better.

— Michael Bacon

A band that cries together stays together.

— Karen Fairchild

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

— Andy Summers

It's actually not that hard to play guitar in a rock band.

— Aaron Dessner

For me, a band like Gojira brings something really cool and new to the table.

— M. Shadows

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

— Randy Jackson