Music making Quotes · Page 72

“Grown-ups everywhere are learning the instrument to relieve stress, focus their minds – and for the sheer joy it brings.”

— Anonymous

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

— John Burnside

“singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’ ‘really?’ Ruth said, amazed, ‘How did that happen?’…

— Francine Rivers

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was…

— Richard Llewellyn

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

— Ad-Rock

I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of…

— Charlie Heaton

We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.

— Grace Chatto

Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.

— India Arie

The hardest instruments for women to play are bass and drums. Drums because of the physicality needed and bass just because its…

— Suzi Quatro

I'm not going to be sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing about my troubles anytime soon. I mean, I'm…

— Jemina Pearl

“Toph kicks over the microphone stand in a grand, asshole gesture, and the three of them jump off the stage. It's a…

— Stephanie Perkins

We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own…

— Keith Richards

“What - what - what are you doing?" he demanded. "I am almost six hundred years old," Magnus claimed, and Ragnor snorted,…

— Cassandra Clare

My thing with New York was that it felt so insular. When I went to L.A., everybody I knew was a cool,…

— LP

For 'The Anthem,' a lot of my fans were like 'Oh, man, he's getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune…

— GRiZ

We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people…

— Bent Saether

In 'Boondien' I worked with a band where everyone had their own instrument to play.

— Mohit Chauhan

We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.

— Rick Nielsen

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal…

— Megan Thee Stallion

I have been trained for three years in Hindustani classical music. I keep humming and many Bollywood co-stars have been victimized by…

— Amrita Rao

Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.

— Isaac Hanson

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

— Florence Welch

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and…

— Christian Fennesz

I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world.

— David Bryan

I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand…

— Mats Wilander

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along…

— Audra McDonald

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

— Lars Ulrich

You know, I've always wanted this, to be playing music and making money and all. But, it is really weird.

— Gina Schock

“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.”

— Pete Hamill

I think for a band like us, we're all really close friends. We grew up and went to school together. We're not…

— Luke Hemmings

My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men…

— Sia

Any band that you have, any relationship in your life, is gonna come with moments of tension.

— Robert Trujillo

Music is my soul, and I love singing and dancing, but being on the road is not a real way of life…

— Ashley Roberts

Instead, of worrying if something will be a hit, bands need to go out and make good music, get a following, play…

— Jaimoe

We've met people who have been in bands for years and they have said things to us like 'You guys are doing…

— Calum Hood

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

— Ben Howard

What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

— Isaac Hanson

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

— Joe Perry

We're not complete prodigies musically and as a band together it takes more and more work to find something new and special.

— Justin Chancellor