Music making Quotes · Page 70

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

— Mark Foster

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

— Billie Holiday

Its your wish to be an instrument of change or an observer of change. I'll rather be an instrument of change.

— Melchor Lim

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on…

— Ruben Blades

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what…

— Taylor Momsen

I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of…

— R. Kelly

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

— Wynton Marsalis

Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

— Clarence Clemons

I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate…

— Ray Charles

When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on…

— Eric Cantona

As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the…

— Kamasi Washington

Mumford & Sons have really opened up everyone's ears to music with instruments again, acoustic-based music... it's reassuring for people like me…

— Ben Howard

When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities -…

— Charice Pempengco

I went to an all-girls school where most people played the piano or the violin, so I didn't really know anyone who…

— Ellie Rowsell

I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested…

— Charles Hazlewood

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went…

— Z'EV

In the beginning, we were a real good, straight rock 'n' roll band. We were writing quality tunes.

— Eric Carmen

“Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal?”

— Dada Bhagwan

When you learn to play, you just hold the guitar differently. You can tell when someone's just never held an instrument.

— Monica Barbaro

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

— Kaci Brown

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or…

— Kellin Quinn

I've always been known for writing lyrics or being in a band but not necessarily for 'Oh, I love that guy's voice!'

— Matthew Koma

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and Im always going to want to do it.

— Naturi Naughton

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

— Steve Young

If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is…

— James Murphy

Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.

— Dreezy

“The lights flickered. The bands laid down their instruments and the crowds made quiety for the door.”

— Amor Towles

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon

You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands.

— Ted Dwane

You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a…

— Lindsey Buckingham

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

— Jonathan Davis

Weve always done a bunch of musically diverse things. We were just showing a broader side of the band, the more melodic…

— Dimebag Darrell

When I was a kid, every street had a band, and we'd steal members from each other.

— Ian Gillan

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in…

— Wallace Shawn

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

— Joni Mitchell

I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.

— Steven Tyler

“The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to…

— Annie Dillard

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able…

— Bruce Springsteen

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not,…

— George Brecht