Music making Quotes · Page 24

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

— Sebastian Bach

The more you are like me, the less interested in my band you are.

— James Murphy

I should have been singing since I was 10 years old.

— Divine

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

— Stewart Copeland

“I am the instrument of my own destruction.”

— Veronica Roth

I think we are looked upon as a veteran band.

— Lou Gramm

Subtle Pride is an improvisational voice band.

— Brigette Lundy-Paine

I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.

— Matt Berninger

Seven years as a band may seem like a long time, but we were teenagers when we started.

— Luke Hemmings

I like being on a team and that's what a band is like. It's us against them, strength in numbers, and sharing…

— Dennis DeYoung

Slipknot's the kind of band you need to step away from and kind of take a break from and let it heal,…

— Jim Root

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

— Jonathan Cain

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive…

— James Blunt

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

— Christina Milian

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be…

— Coy Bowles

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

— Grimes

I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to…

— Jack Garratt

I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social…

— Michael Franti

“JULY 20. I've just walked into the opera house. I have no programme. Strange new players are premiering a piece by a…

— Erich Hoyt

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover…

— Neil Peart

Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking…

— Eddie Harris

The bottom line is the bigger you get as a band, the more people tell you how great you are in the…

— John Dolmayan

Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince…

— Trey Songz

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

— Mac Miller

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

— Billy Squier

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

— Alex Winston

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

— William James

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

— Andy Summers

I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.

— David Bryan

I never do karaoke. I don't enjoy singing to be honest.

— David Essex

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

— Ernest Mandel

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

— Les Claypool

I sing too much for someone who can't sing.

— Anonymous

When I was a kid I loved to sing, that's all I did.

— Tevin Campbell

The piano is such a timeless instrument.

— Ramin Djawadi

Church singing is a great training ground.

— Morgan Neville

Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.

— Paul Rodgers

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

— Andres Segovia

It's important to have a life outside the band.

— Liam Payne