Music making Quotes · Page 53

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.

— Nick Cave

This ain't no fucking sing-along so, girl, what you singing for?

— The Weeknd

I've been having singing lessons whenever I can fit them in.

— Gemma Collins

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

— Jason Bonham

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

— Dolly Parton

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music

— Phil Anselmo

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

— Paul Gauguin

I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing.

— Joe Casey

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play…

— Yann Tiersen

AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want…

— Jacob Collier

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in…

— Drew Goddard

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also…

— Ron Currie Jr

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

— Adam Anderson

There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.

— Nick Cave

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite…

— Ric Ocasek

I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part…

— Nicky Romero

The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We…

— Jack Antonoff

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal…

— Lorde

Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings,…

— Andy Summers

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really,…

— Joan Armatrading

A lot of guys picked up an instrument because they couldn't get girls to pay attention to them in high school. They…

— Bebe Buell

I love performing with a band way more than a track, just because it gets a whole new kind of vibe going…

— Lauren Alaina

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing,…

— Jeff Ament

“You're like a band-aid that is slowly ripping off, and I'm still wounded!”

— Ahmed Mostafa

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.

— John Updike

Some guys dig ditches, I have a band. It's what I do

— Woody Herman

I always feel I need to do well regardless of the level of the band.

— Floor Jansen

I like going around everywhere and singing to people.

— Mason Ramsey

No, I'm never confident with what I do, particularly playing and singing!

— Amy Macdonald

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

— Paul Weller

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

— Kevin Richardson

My singing is inspirational. When I sing, the people around me sing louder.

— Rock Cowles

You don't have to be in a rock band to write your own music.

— Jade Thirlwall

I think I just really, really love singing.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

— Neil Young

I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen.

— Jac Holzman

I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.

— Jake Shears

I like the music that I sing, cos I, like, feel it more.

— Courtney Hadwin

Playback singing has always been my dream.

— Meghana Raj