Music making Quotes · Page 68

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

— Gene Simmons

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band,…

— Cliff Martinez

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band…

— Thom Yorke

We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.

— Mark Foster

I never really got there I just pretended that I had. What's the point of instruments? Words are a sawed off shotgun.

— Radiohead

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

— Mark Foster

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

— Martin Gore

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in…

— Ikue Mori

My mother has learnt classical singing from renowned artiste Druba Ghosh at Sangeet Mahabharati, a music school. During my vacations, my father…

— Madhura Naik

You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you…

— Jake Shimabukuro

Our bassist, Tim Staffell, was at art college with Frederick Bulsara, who changed his name to Freddie Mercury and joined the band…

— Roger Taylor

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love…

— George Benson

I didn't decide to play guitar, but that was the instrument which I was offered. I've always been interested in horn-type instruments,…

— Allan Holdsworth

Once you hit 40, being in a band - a committee voting constantly on what you're going to be doing next month…

— Dean Wareham

I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and…

— Matisyahu

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all…

— Chick Corea

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

— Atticus Ross

I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated…

— Alyson Stoner

“sing all the same, the voice doesn't matter, its the reason behind the singing that does”

— Ohadugha Golden O

Sticking to our guns creatively is the only way we'll ever survive as a band and be happy.

— Ted Dwane

When I first started doing music I was singing, then I started rappin, then I came back to the singing. It was…

— T-Pain

There are times, like with Dire Straits, where you can get as close as you can be to being good at your…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

— Anonymous

I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.

— D-Pryde

Our vocal harmonies started to feel like a cop-out: all group-singing, all the time.

— Robin Pecknold

Dear all the band members I love, Please be careful because you mean so much to me and the band would never…

— Anonymous

“Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.”

— Celine Dion

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

— Dan Bejar

“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

— Samuel Butler

A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be:…

— Luke Hemmings

You know, we love what we do, man, and I don't want to be one of those bands that we write an…

— Ivan Moody

Growing up, watching pop music icons, I never saw a solo artist whose main instrument was drums.

— G Flip

Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

— Shusha Guppy

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band…

— Rich Brian

“The tunes he played on that instrument wouldn't be audible to the living. That didn't mean they wouldn't be real.”

— Seanan McGuire

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything…

— Beth Ditto

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be…

— Lily Allen

When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort…

— Madonna Ciccone

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

— George Santayana