Music making Quotes · Page 62

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's…

— Chris Cornell

I started taking part in college competitions... my first-ever performance with a band was in McDonald's, and I got Rs 500. I…

— Atif Aslam

I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!

— Anonymous

My life a stage I need her just to stand on it. Everyday she look back, I toss a band on it.

— Rick Ross

I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.

— Blake Shelton

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my…

— Garth Greenwell

One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever…

— Chris Lowe

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

— Bruno Mars

As an actor you have to keep working, were perishable fruit. Its an instrument and if you sit and wait too long…

— Cuba Gooding Jr

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is…

— Brie Larson

I like having a big band because it gives you more options. They can always not play and I can do the…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know…

— Travis Morrison

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school…

— Michael J. Fox

Guitar was just a hobby, but it seemed to me that the instrument had possibilities, not least of which was that there…

— Julian Bream

I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many…

— John Congleton

Basically, a band's first record is them coming together and really learning everything, and then, after they're on the road and really…

— Vinnie Paul

I grew up dancing and singing, and I pool together my life experience and relationships and put it into work.

— Ashley Roberts

Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played... We were becoming tighter and tighter, to…

— Jimmy Page

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

— Mattew Nicholls

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

— Robert Smith

“But it was late. We had to go home. We listened to the river singing, the river singing stone.”

— Myrna Peña-Reyes

I make sure that everyone on the team and in my band really love music. They live for music, and it's our…

— Jade Bird

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

— Phil Collins

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different…

— John Frusciante

When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."

— Miles Davis

We're working out, watching Netflix and learning to play instruments. I think we're doing a lot of self-development, and also just trying…

— J-Hope

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

— Nneka

I generally use a lot of analog instruments, a few synths from the '80s like the Roland Juno-106, and an old Fender…

— Gus Dapperton

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.

— Natasha Leggero

It's a very different feeling just sitting around the side, playing piano, and dancing around as opposed to standing in front and…

— Jonathan Meiburg

“Always be the worst guy in every band you’re in. - so you can learn. The people around you affect your performance.…

— Chad Fowler

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

— Brandi Carlile

By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or…

— Chesney Hawkes

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

— Anonymous

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well…

— Randy Newman

If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't…

— David Toop

I started singing in my first band in 1992 so I'm coming up to 20 years in this business. That's a long time.

— Darren Hayes

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

— M. Jayachandran

It's 2019. People aren't going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record.

— Nita Strauss

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

— Johnny Colt