Music making Quotes · Page 40

I can't dance and I can't sing too well,

— Michael Kors

When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers.

— Yusaku Maezawa

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

— John Green

We got famous off singing about a chicken.

— Sean Kinney

We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.

— Matthew Ramsey

Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

— Rick Astley

On stage with the band, your destiny lies in your own hands.

— David Bryan

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

— Corey Haim

If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.

— Talib Kweli

Ever since I was 18 or 19, I've wanted to question the sound, tones, and scale associated with the piano as an…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

— Aselin Debison

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just…

— Arnold Palmer

I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

— Lindsay Duncan

Getting old, getting grey, getting ripped off, under paid. Getting sold, second hand, that's how it goes, playing in a band.

— ACDC

We want to be an important band to people for the right reasons. It's always been a goal.

— Luke Hemmings

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

— Mick Taylor

Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was…

— Gordon Lightfoot

We need music," Nico said. "How's your singing?" "Um, no. Can't you just, like, tell it to open? You're the son of…

— Rick Riordan

I can't write a piece of music in a void, I have to know what instrument I'm writing it for. In the…

— Bear McCreary

I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel…

— Rick Rubin

Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a…

— Bonnie Raitt

It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to…

— Erica Packer

I spend time editing and massaging each note. Then I start layering with different instruments, adding harmonies, counterpoint, and whatever the song…

— Jason Becker

I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically,…

— Gin Wigmore

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

— Johann Johannsson

Any chance I get to see a band that I like, I take it.

— Finn Wolfhard

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

— Waylon Jennings

“Sing 'em to remember. Sing 'em because you remember.”

— Adrienne Kress

I think it's better to be a hair band than a bald band.

— Warren DeMartini

Our body is our instrument so it's really important for us to treat it right.

— Avi Kaplan

I'll sing for my films only when I want to.

— Himesh Reshammiya

One of the things I love most about being in a band is being with my friends.

— Tom Fletcher

I want to be able to sing like Whitney Houston did.

— Shonda Rhimes

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

— Audrina Patridge

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

— Jane Horrocks

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

— Laurie Anderson

I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.

— Jason Newsted

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

— John Lyly

“No matter your situation, if you sing, you will not be sorrow.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Strive always to improve the instrument.

— Henry E. Steinway