Music making Quotes · Page 57

Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.

— Corey Taylor

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

— Jon Bon Jovi

We don't have the big-band mentality. We never wanted to become a big band.

— Fab Moretti

A lot of people don't know this, but I sing.

— Chi Chi DeVayne

And he just kept on singing. Singing clear and strong.

— Roberta Flack

I should have been a rock star. But I can't sing.

— Gia Carangi

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

— Deep Roy

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

— Max Tundra

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

— Dalai Lama

As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.

— Jack Garratt

When you have had the high of being on stage, especially in a band like ourselves, I can't help but search for…

— Keith Flint

I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

— John Gourley

The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.

— Ailyn Perez

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if…

— Alexander Chee

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

— Imelda May

It's a gas, just phoning up some bands and saying: 'You don't know us but we love you and would you come…

— Gord Downie

Bands get passed down as a tradition because people say to their kids: 'You want to hear this, because this right here…

— B-Real

You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out.…

— Rickey Medlocke

I remember, from aged six to nine, I was loud and abrasive and loved making noise and loved playing instruments and doing…

— Jack Garratt

“Those bands, you plan your life around them. You plan vacations around concert dates. You save babysitting money for records. You live…

— Karina Halle

What I really love is touring on a bus with my band playing shows every night and feeling the audience, feeling the…

— Christina Perri

When I was studying in secondary school, a teacher recommended me during a singing contest. I took the championship because of my…

— Daesung

If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's…

— Jarvis Cocker

“A brick could be used as a musical instrument. It doesn’t matter how bad it sounds, because I’ll be the band’s lead…

— Jarod Kintz

I want to be a band that people haven't seen.

— Chuck Inglish

A dancer dances.A writer writes. A singer sings. What do you do? Know thyself.

— Tassel Daley

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

— Edward Norton

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

— Tammin Sursok

I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

— David Thibodeau

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

— Javed Ali

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

— Miles Teller

The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.

— Nick Mason

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

— Trent Reznor

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

— Matt Tong

I have a great band of great guys. We're a lot of fun.

— Jon Pardi

We're doing everything we can to help bands from Buffalo.

— John Rzeznik

The larger the band gets, the more people from the label get involved.

— Hope Sandoval

A lot of bands change, and a lot of bands break up, but only a few grow.

— Anthony Fantano

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

— Jay DeMarcus

We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.

— Scotty Moore