Music making Quotes · Page 69

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at…

— Sharon Jones

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the…

— Alber Elbaz

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you…

— Stan Getz

When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to…

— Paul Gruchow

“I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks.”

— Jarod Kintz

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

— Lee Ranaldo

For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole…

— Tobias Forge

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

— Sharon Jones

My hands float up above me And you whisper you love me And I begin to fade Into our secret place The…

— Flyleaf: All Around Me

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I…

— Bruce Springsteen

We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come…

— Elisabeth Moss

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am.…

— Andrea Bocelli

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The…

— Ian MacKaye

If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to…

— Luka Sulic

The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes.…

— Gayle Forman

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

— Colm Meaney

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us…

— Ian Rankin

I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

— Guy Clark

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

— Manuel de Falla

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the…

— Rick Astley

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in…

— David Cassidy

Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.

— Lee Ann Womack

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records…

— Will Oldham

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

— James Bay

The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.

— Aaron Dessner

I'm trying to get better at singing. I just want to be great vocally on stage so I can give fans a…

— Bryson Tiller

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think…

— Graham Coxon

I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.

— Sturgill Simpson

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part…

— DJ Spooky

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail…

— Cassandra Wilson

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

— Mandy Moore

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write…

— Adam Jones

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

— June Millington

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I…

— Alison Moyet

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

— Lykke Li

For every band that writes something earth-shatteringly important, there has to be a band you can go out and drink beer to.

— Jani Lane

I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love…

— Benji Madden

It's a really unique experience to have a band that's a 12 piece working together as one mind.

— Susan Tedeschi

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is…

— Steve Vai