Music making Quotes · Page 41

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

— Charles King

If you're shy when you're singing, that's the worst combination.

— Stefflon Don

There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.

— Michael Kiwanuka

“We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”

— André Aciman

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

— Christina Aguilera

The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.

— Philip Pullman

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

— Frankie Ballard

Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

— Billie Eilish

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

— Cassandra Wilson

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio.…

— Lady Gaga

I learned all about big band arrangement and symphony arrangement and writing for strings.

— Jack Conte

“A brick could be used as a musical instrument. But it would take someone as deaf as Beethoven to enjoy it.
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— Jarod Kintz

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to…

— Deana Carter

We didn't get into this to be a cool indie band. When radio caught on, that made a little more sense. We…

— Jesse Rutherford

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

— Travis Barker

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

— Gina Schock

“Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records…

— Ray Stevens

You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've gotten off the road…

— Shawn Mendes

I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my…

— Taylor Hawkins

From playing bass guitar in a covers band in Israel... to my various partnerships with media companies, investment companies, governments etc. all…

— Haim Saban

During recording, the most important thing of all is to "sing sincerely" from the heart. When you guys listen to my songs…

— Daesung

On the street, people think I'm a guitar-carrying band member with a rock-n'-roll lifestyle, but the closest I have ever got to…

— Benedict Samuel

My first instrument was bass, and the first thing that I remember learning to play that was better than a few notes…

— George Ezra

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

— Arvo Part

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.

— Taryn Manning

I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

— Linda Ronstadt

I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.

— David Bryan

My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.

— Leon Russell

I love jam bands, but I still like a three-and-a-half-minute rock song.

— Darius Rucker

We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.

— Gord Downie

I'm big on simplicity. I'm not too much on all the extra instruments.

— Mustard

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

— Alia Shawkat

I really want to evolve as a band with our sound.

— Calum Hood

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

— Flea

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

— Billy Ocean

I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.

— Jessie J

We're never lumped in as being an L.A. band in any kind of context.

— Russell Mael

The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!

— Billy Gibbons

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

— Paul Weller