Music making Quotes · Page 32

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

— Roger Daltrey

What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up

— Mick Taylor

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

— Lenny Kravitz

I never wanted to be a solo artist. I always wanted to be in a band.

— Mike Campbell

It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!

— Alia Shawkat

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

— Adam Jones

Handcrafted friendship Band made by myself for my friend.

— Bilal

As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

— Steven Tyler

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

— David Bowie

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

— Beth Ditto

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet…

— Geezer Butler

I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I…

— Jessica Sanchez

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

— Ben Jackson

I thought I sang - it's OK - it's so hard to sing! Singing - I had no idea. I'd get fatigued…

— Bradley Cooper

I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.

— Mike McCready

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

— Rosemary Clooney

My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock…

— Mark Alan Stamaty

Because I play so many instruments I approach each song differently. One might be from a drum perspective, one from a producing…

— G Flip

But I always wanted to do a theatrical stuff. But when you're in a metal band of course you're limited because five…

— Arjen Anthony Lucassen

Everyone has a fantasy of what they want their band to sound like. However, because I knew nothing about making music, I…

— Joe Casey

We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band,…

— Bent Saether

For whatever reason, all my friends are musical wizards and in great bands, but yeah, it really skipped over me. It's one…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and…

— Peter Tosh

There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and,…

— Annie Dillard

We want to be considered a band, like Maroon 5 or Coldplay.

— Kevin Olusola

“I'm cool either way, I just need to know which instrument to pull out.”

— S.C. Stephens

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

— Lenny Kravitz

If you're learning a new instrument, have fun.

— Phil Ehart

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

— Lesley Garrett

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

— Emmylou Harris

Singing was a liberating experience for me.

— Meghana Raj

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

— Ed O'Brien

“You are the earth that I will stand upon. You are the words that I will sing.”

— Ed Sheeran

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

— Steve Vai

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

— Herb Alpert

I don't want to sing, you know: 'oh yeah, I love you baby, you love me too.'

— Lara Fabian

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

— Anonymous

I've been singing all of my life, one way or another.

— Adrian Dunbar

Things I'm bad at: singing. Things I do a lot: sing.

— Ritu Ghatourey

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool