Music making Quotes · Page 31

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

— Orson Welles

I don't sing any more. I guess I'm getting old.

— Anna Karina

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

— Mick Jagger

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

— Chrissie Hynde

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

— Anonymous

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

— Vittorio Grigolo

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

— Bobby McFerrin

Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.

— Garrison Keillor

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad…

— Skylar Grey

I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.

— Volker Bertelmann

Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but…

— Dave Clark

People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it…

— Lucy Boynton

I don't think that a lot of my favorite producers or bands would produce our albums or even play on them, unfortunately.

— Chad Gilbert

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

— Jack Brymer

I suppose you have to be careful what you sing, because you might have to do it.

— Lisa Stansfield

I played a song that I wrote and thats what got me into the band. -Siva Kaneswaran

— The Wanted

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together…

— Randy Bachman

Because of my register, Miles Davis' trumpet playing has always been a big influence on my singing. I've always been intrigued by…

— Philip Bailey

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do…

— RuPaul

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very…

— Kiesza

I obviously appreciate all the fans I gained from my band, but there weren't enough of them to make me a very…

— Cassadee Pope

There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group…

— Lindsey Buckingham

I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace…

— Gerard Way

When you have a sense of yourself in space, in your movement, in your muscles, you can express yourself through your body,…

— Tessa Virtue

Just stick to what you feel you sing best at, no matter what it is.

— Gabby Barrett

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

— Paul McCartney

“You'll never harmonize if everyone is singing the same note.”

— L.B. Wilson

In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

— Hakuin Ekaku

I'm very proud of my band and my musicians.

— Trombone Shorty

I fell in love with singing and I love idolizing artists.

— Ruel

It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.

— Garth Hudson

I always wanted to make music but I cannot play any instrument.

— Udo Kier

I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

— T-Pain

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

— Mick Jagger

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

— Rick Danko

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

— Dave Grohl

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

— Adam Duritz

We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs.

— David Bryan

By 21, I had my first real taste of success with a band called House of Pain.

— Everlast

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

— Sigrid Agren