Music making Quotes · Page 49

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

— Leona Lewis

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

— Roger Daltrey

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

— Bobby McFerrin

I had a couple of years of rebellion - I was singing in a rock band.

— Antoine Arnault

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

— Taryn Manning

We're not the kind of band that writes very well on the road.

— Tony Kanal

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

— Madchen Amick

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

— Jesse L. Martin

I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would…

— Sixto Rodriguez

I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.

— Sue Tompkins

I'm just really interested, when a band plays and they think they sucked from a band perspective.

— Pat Smear

I grew up in the church around my mum singing in the choir and my dad leading worship. Music runs in my…

— Raye

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of…

— David Sanborn

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and…

— Cheech Marin

“His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.”

— Juliet Marillier

I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine…

— Amy Lee

In music, I don't think there's any need to be an all-rounder and do everything yourself. Play to your strengths, and do…

— Sophie

I remember, when I was very young and going to the Fillmore East and watching three of my favorite bands in one…

— David Bryan

I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn…

— John Hodgman

I somehow always found the right people on my own to jam with as well as playing with all my buddies. I…

— John Petrucci

“A good rock band is like a great lover. Their rhythms simultaneously jolt and calm you. They know when and where to…

— Tom Leveen

Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to…

— Thomas A. Edison

The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown…

— Washed Out

When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is…

— Charles Darwin

I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing.

— D'Angelo

Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.

— Aldous Harding

Ghazal singing will come back with a bang.

— Javed Ali

I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't do much else to be honest.

— Graham Potter

If I could be a musician, I'd do it. I love singing.

— Rebecca Hall

Obviously nobody likes it when you walk offstage, including your band.

— Hope Sandoval

Singing involves a great deal of psychology.

— Max Martin

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

— Michael Snow

Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.

— Shenae Grimes

I like that people are still trying to guess what kind of music I'm making.

— Kaytranada

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

— Diplo

I'm always going to sing like a country singer.

— CMAT

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

— Mick Jagger

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

— Bryn Terfel

I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

— Eddie Van Halen

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

— Neko Case