Music making Quotes · Page 73

To me to singing is like a freedom. It's a very therapeutic thing. It's incredible. I can just lose myself. It's sort…

— Lisa Stansfield

The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is…

— Julian Bream

I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!

— Anonymous

My life a stage I need her just to stand on it. Everyday she look back, I toss a band on it.

— Rick Ross

I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.

— Blake Shelton

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my…

— Garth Greenwell

One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever…

— Chris Lowe

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

— Bruno Mars

I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream…

— Glen Campbell

The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music…

— Grace Potter

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the…

— Michael Stipe

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on…

— Rakim

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else…

— Suzi Quatro

I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are together because they…

— Gerry Beckley

I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to…

— James Corden

I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer.…

— Brian Wilson

I grew up dancing and singing, and I pool together my life experience and relationships and put it into work.

— Ashley Roberts

Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played... We were becoming tighter and tighter, to…

— Jimmy Page

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

— Mattew Nicholls

I make sure that everyone on the team and in my band really love music. They live for music, and it's our…

— Jade Bird

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

— Phil Collins

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

— Robert Smith

“But it was late. We had to go home. We listened to the river singing, the river singing stone.”

— Myrna Peña-Reyes

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different…

— John Frusciante

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

— Christopher Masterson

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that…

— Tom Waits

For me, singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

— Edith Piaf

“God calls His people to celebrate Him with singing and playing, and then He promises to do a little drumming of His…

— Terry Law

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

— Grimes

I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.

— Johan Renck

I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar…

— Robbie Robertson

“He had learned to play his instrument with the same joyless precision that barefoot waifs exercised in stoking the coal fires of…

— Glen David Gold

If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

— Nancy Gibbs

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and…

— M. Shadows

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's…

— Chris Cornell

I started taking part in college competitions... my first-ever performance with a band was in McDonald's, and I got Rs 500. I…

— Atif Aslam

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

— Bill Frisell

To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to…

— Nita Strauss

We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the…

— Nicola Roberts