Music making Quotes · Page 67

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

— JoJo Siwa

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the…

— Chuck Brown

I was brought up by my mother, and she is my guru in classical singing. I have trained primarily under her.

— Chinmayi

I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or…

— John 5

I've always been in a band where it's been somebody else's band - or pretty much always.

— Pat Smear

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

— Bob Dylan

I can rap, I can sing, I can do whatever, you know what I'm saying? I can do rock.

— Trippie Redd

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of…

— John Sebastian

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a…

— Dweezil Zappa

We're the only band that's got real communication between the stage and the audience. People know they can come and talk to…

— Captain Sensible

I like to dance. I always make my husband dance with me when we are in the kitchen to whatever gets us…

— Catherine Cortez-Masto

I'm a big fan of a lot of prog music. As a record collector as well, I won't throw anybody or any…

— Tobias Forge

“Because you're in a band, you go for other people in bands or in the music industry, but people don't grow up…

— Paul Miles

I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Frequently, I go straight into the studio and see what's around. I might hire a couple of instruments that I've never used…

— Brian Eno

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

— Dan Fogelberg

I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.

— Essie Davis

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

— Rostam Batmanglij

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to…

— Duke Ellington

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

— David Bowie

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

— William Shakespeare

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I…

— Steven Wilson

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

— David Byrne

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting…

— Chris Daughtry

Being in a band is like a marriage because you have to care about everybody because you're all living together.

— Susan Tedeschi

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even…

— John Petrucci

Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.

— Yasmine Hamdan

As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.

— Devin Townsend

The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without…

— Charlie Musselwhite

“It was a want ad for a band seeking a bass player. The name to call was Slash. With”

— Duff McKagan

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

— Layne Staley

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

— Boy George

When your band is no longer just your band but is an industry within an industry it can be a lot on…

— Jim Kerr

We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours…

— Ed Kowalczyk

The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can…

— William Shakespeare

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good…

— Andrew Ripp

I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.

— Naima Adedapo