Music making Quotes · Page 34

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

— Jay DeMarcus

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

— Dee Dee Ramone

In the end, it's always about the three-piece band and the singer.

— John Waite

“He was improvising, playing the two of us like fine instruments.”

— Solace Ames

“Sing, if you can sing, and if not still be musical inside yourself.”

— Mary Oliver

My favorite instrument is a bemrimbau. I play that every night.

— Max Cavalera

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

— Rhiannon Giddens

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

— Lauren Myracle

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

— Marlo Morgan

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor…

— Ned Sublette

Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is…

— Steve Nash

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care…

— Josephine Baker

Typically in Korea when I perform I have a full band, a ten-piece band, and that's a completely different monster in itself…

— Eric Nam

I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want…

— Dianne Reeves

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

— David Cross

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous…

— Linda Ronstadt

I worked in corrections because they had told me I wasn't going to make it in the music business. You know, when…

— Sharon Jones

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you…

— John McLaughlin

Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument,…

— Laurence Equilbey

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press?…

— Holly Johnson

After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing…

— Natalie Prass

Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself,…

— Yoshi Wada

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word.…

— Gerard Way

One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you…

— Alasdair MacLean

I was never growing up saying, 'Dude, I want to sing in a band.'

— Sonny Sandoval

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

— Francis Thompson

I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.

— Tom Anderson

I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.

— Leona Lewis

I know nothing other than singing and I feel blessed.

— Javed Ali

I've been singing, literally, since I was born.

— James Charles

I've always wanted to have keyboards in the band.

— Mike McCready

I joined a metal band with only guys when I was 17.

— Floor Jansen

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

— Vladimir Horowitz

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.

— Jonathan King

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

— Johannes Kepler

As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?

— Dave Matthews

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower,

— Jessica Pare

Sex is the instrument and love the music.

— Isabel Allende

It's not an easy thing to manage - school and being in a band.

— Soccer Mommy