Music making Quotes · Page 22

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

— Alfredo Kraus

Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job

— Billy Corgan

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

— Eric Andre

“Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism”

— Charmaine Smith Ladd

It is not easy to sing the way Karajan wants.

— Mirella Freni

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

— Keith David

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play

— Yiddish Proverb

I will work hard at honing my acting and singing.

— Seo In-guk

I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass…

— Trombone Shorty

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me.…

— Reggie Watts

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

— Louis Jordan

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

— Zachary Cole Smith

I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.

— Bryce Dessner

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on…

— Yoko Ono

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

— Lucas Grabeel

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all…

— Oscar Peterson

I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this…

— Beck

The fact that I'm a fifth of Punch Brothers... that's lucky for me because I feel like I get to operate in…

— Chris Thile

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want…

— Andrew Fletcher

I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with…

— Gloria Estefan

I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part…

— Nicky Romero

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal…

— Lorde

Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings,…

— Andy Summers

The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We…

— Jack Antonoff

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

— Fantasia Barrino

I do the least 'working on myself' in our band.

— Phoebe Bridgers

Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.

— Taraji P. Henson

I can be more real and more vulnerable when I sing.

— Tee Grizzley

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

— Steve Lacy

“See how I sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?”

— Dalton Trumbo

I've been singing since I was five. It's my identity.

— Art Garfunkel

“I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.”

— Henry Miller

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

— Ikue Mori

I always wanted to be in a rock band, but I wanted to sing like a soul singer.

— Jimmy Barnes

I play instruments and stuff, but I can't rap or anything like that.

— Jamal Murray

Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.

— Chris Robinson

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

— Jimmy Iovine

I like people who can write and sing, and play an instrument.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I didn't really want to sing at first, but my dad insisted that I do.

— Aretha Franklin

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

— Elliott Smith