Music making Quotes · Page 48

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

— Alex Turner

I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

— Tom Jones

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

— Joe Cocker

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

— Keith Richards

When we were starting out as a band, I was addicted to college radio.

— Ed Kowalczyk

Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!

— Nancy Wilson

I don't sing. I'm the worst singer in the world!

— Jonas Blue

A band is like a family. There's love and hate.

— John Seagall

Volbeat is one of those bands, where as soon as I hear them, I know who it is. It sounds like Elvis…

— Jim Breuer

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

— Radhanath Swami

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's…

— Christopher Abbott

“An instrument that does not help to attain the ultimate goal (Self realization) cannot be considered as spirituality at all!”

— Dada Bhagwan

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

— Victor Hugo

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

— Sappho

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

— Graham Nash

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly…

— B. B. King

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

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

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but…

— Bryan Adams

I play music as much as I can. I have a band called The Abiders. We've put out a couple of albums…

— Jeff Bridges

The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot…

— Plato

I feel some allegiance to pushing electric-guitar music into a different realm, somewhere that isn't retrospective. There's a lot of guitar bands…

— Jamie Hince

I had this one rock band I used to listen to, but I forgot the name of them.

— Ace Hood

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

— Julie Andrews

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

— Marisha Pessl

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

— Brody Jenner

You're in a relationship when you're in a band.

— John Dolmayan

It's great fun to play with a really good band.

— Walter Becker

If you're going to have a rock band, you've got to do it while you're young.

— Kemp Muhl

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

— Lindsey Buckingham

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

— Jerry Cantrell

“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”

— Virgil

“Work is created to be an instrument through which you release your potential”

— Sunday Adelaja

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

— Gertrude Stein

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

— Yoko Ono

We were a country band with a social conscience.

— Kinky Friedman

Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.

— Bryan Procter

Nobody has one band anymore. They've got two and three and four!

— Martie Maguire