Music making Quotes · Page 44

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

— Ella Fitzgerald

You know, unfortunately, when a band signs a contract, you're a commodity.

— Marky Ramone

I always wanted to sing but was too shy to do so.

— Saira Banu

There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

— Doug Martsch

We were a band way before we ever did anything with Disney.

— Kevin Jonas

I've been singing since I was very young.

— Jonita Gandhi

One Direction's not a band, it's an economy.

— Naughty Boy

Of the members of the band, I'm the biggest Michael Jackson fan.

— Kevin Olusola

I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.

— Vinnie Vincent

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for…

— Donald Glover

Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.

— Paul Gilbert

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

— E. M. Forster

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

— Ringo Starr

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along

— E. M. Forster

“Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

— Mary Oliver

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

— Neal Schon

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could…

— Cristin Milioti

Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like…

— Nina Simone

We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's…

— Lee Ranaldo

If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically…

— Rick Allen

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an…

— Kerry Washington

Being in a band, a lot of times people think of what you're doing in terms of a competition. They talk about…

— John Flansburgh

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained…

— Vanessa Carlton

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged…

— John Ruskin

It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.

— Steven Tyler

Band is the best when you play the oboe!!!!!

— Janeydean O'connor

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.

— Nancy Wilson

I want to show everyone what a good rock 'n' roll band we can be.

— Steve Porcaro

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

— Ambrose Bierce

Our goal was definitely to be the biggest band in the world, for sure.

— Redfoo

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

— James Maslow

I'm watching The Singing Detective.' I'm rather taken by it.

— Jonathan Bailey

I am just the band leader, and I just keep everything in tune.

— Wong Kar-wai

“ Sing to me in the language of leviathan, that I may know his name. ”

— George R.R. Martin

I don't just sing in the shower... I perform.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I was in the band for the first six albums.

— Steve Porcaro

I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.

— Kevin Costner

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

— Anonymous

I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.

— Christine McVie

“For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.”

— Christopher Smart