Music making Quotes · Page 55

Subtle Pride is an improvisational voice band.

— Brigette Lundy-Paine

I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.

— Matt Berninger

Steely Dan is a band I'm not that into. Well, I guess I like certain singles.

— David Longstreth

Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.

— Winston Marshall

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

— Giles Duley

I'm used to being in a band and collaborating.

— Shavo Odadjian

We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.

— Chester Bennington

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

— Henry Rollins

When you go out for the night with your buddies, it feels like you're in a band, and I think everybody can…

— Matthew Ramsey

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

— Noel Gallagher

I love singing, and I used to perform quite a lot, but now, as a director, you just tend to watch other…

— John Tiffany

In the band's early days people didn't really know what we were, and they decided to shout at us before listening to…

— James Righton

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned…

— John F. Kerry

We've always prided ourselves on the fact that we're a band that the whole family can enjoy together.

— Jay DeMarcus

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a…

— Robin Pecknold

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such,…

— P. J. Harvey

Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's…

— Bryce Dessner

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way…

— Tim Commerford

As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all…

— Suzi Quatro

I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and,…

— Caitlin Rose

I think the hardest part for musicians is what a wide gulf of time there is between when you decide to sober…

— Laura Jane Grace

We are aiming to create a new genre with a new style in terms of visuals and sound. A mixture of dance…

— Yui Mizuno

Singing is my form of expression; it's what I've always done and I hope that in some capacity I'll always have that…

— Wendy Matthews

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has…

— Earl Monroe

I've been blessed to be able to sing and perform.

— Vera Lynn

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

— Sebastian Bach

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

— Kelli O'Hara

It's important to have a life outside the band.

— Liam Payne

“Hi, I am Matt Bellamy and I am in a band called Muse and we play Music”

— Matt Bellamy

I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.

— Aurora Aksnes

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

— Andres Segovia

We want to embrace the younger crowds and get them to embrace instruments.

— Martie Maguire

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

— Amy Winehouse

There's trials and tribulations in a band.

— David Bryan

“How I would sing like a kettle to keep you”

— Kevin Young

I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.

— David Bryan

I never do karaoke. I don't enjoy singing to be honest.

— David Essex

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

— Andy Summers

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

— Billy Squier

I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.

— Alex Winston