Music making Quotes · Page 63

It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust.…

— Kim Gordon

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play…

— Jimmy Page

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV…

— Maxwell

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need,…

— Ronnie Hawkins

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get…

— Stephen Mangan

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

— Bill Frisell

We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the…

— Nicola Roberts

“You can’t become a famous garage band if you never perform outside your garage. That’s why my band plays in my driveway.”

— Jarod Kintz

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another…

— Ken Hensley

I love the Memphis sound. When I was 16-and-a-half, with my driver's permit, I was playing New Jersey clubs in a 10-piece…

— David Bryan

Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that,…

— Steve Earle

Music is multi-dimensional: it's all in the feeling. Sometimes I feel like looping; sometimes I don't. Sometimes I want to strip it…

— Tash Sultana

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music…

— Anthony Kiedis

“It had been years since Melora listened to a symphony. She had been struck by how natural and organic the music was.…

— Marie Zhuikov

1983 - Country music had made a resurgence in this country so I joined a country band. I was the only black…

— Daryl Davis

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested…

— Todd Rundgren

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you…

— E.M. Forster

To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to…

— Nita Strauss

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

— McCoy Tyner

I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.

— Cass McCombs

I love bands like the Arctic Monkeys and The Smiths, and I'm working on my own music.

— Peyton List

I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it.

— Julian Barratt

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country…

— Lindsey Haun

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

— Taylor Swift

Rock bands are a lot like us. They have to go to the arenas early for rehearsal.

— Kelly Kelly

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

— Nicholas Hoult

For a rock band, I didn't see the point in live albums. To my mind, you've got to be there.

— Ian Gillan

I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I was in higher secondary when I participated in 'Indian Idol.' I was also learning singing at the Suresh Wadekar Institute.

— Rahul Vaidya

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

— Billie Holiday

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice,…

— Yoko Ono

I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created…

— Kat Graham

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

— Joni Mitchell

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

— Nanci Griffith

Singing has always been my big passion and I would love to be able to go to the U.S. and perform more.

— Katherine Jenkins

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

— Levon Helm

The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes.

— Zacky Vengeance

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

— Tom Anderson

I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebelling would…

— Holly Marie Combs

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to…

— Maggie Rogers