Music making Quotes · Page 4

I don't listen to rock bands.

— Matty Healy

Love, I find, is like singing.

— Zora Neale Hurston

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

— Angela Carter

I always wanted to be in bands.

— Frank Iero

I believe I can sing anything.

— Anonymous

You wouldn't want to hear me sing now.

— Nicholas Hammond

I will save the singing for my shower.

— Shay Mitchell

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

— May Sarton

I guess I like to sing more than just about anything else in the world.

— Jim Nabors

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

— Ron Carter

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

— Jamal Murray

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

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

— Sixto Rodriguez

Bands speak for us in this inevitable way that you can't get anywhere else because it is this perfect balance of artistic…

— Taylor Goldsmith

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing...

— Lauren Oliver

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want…

— Billy Corgan

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band…

— David James Elliott

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as…

— David Longstreth

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

— Laura Benanti

“They have me singing in a reformatory. My singing would be enough to get me in, but I'd never be able to…

— David Stenn

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

— Elton John

I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer.…

— Brian Wilson

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the…

— Michael Stipe

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on…

— Rakim

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else…

— Suzi Quatro

The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music…

— Grace Potter

Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced…

— Rokia Traore

I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the…

— Zach Condon

You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic…

— Mike McCready

I've been singing since I was young.

— Cree Summer

I couldn't even sing when I started.

— Roisin Murphy

“There are other worlds to sing in.”

— Dean Koontz

I am singing now while Rome burns.

— Richard Siken

I just love being in this band.

— Gina Schock

Without band, life would Bb

— Anonymous

I would do a musical, but I can't sing.

— Amanda Peet

Rumble is the best instrumental ever.

— Bob Dylan