Music making Quotes · Page 74

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you…

— E.M. Forster

“You can’t become a famous garage band if you never perform outside your garage. That’s why my band plays in my driveway.”

— Jarod Kintz

My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

— McCoy Tyner

I love bands like the Arctic Monkeys and The Smiths, and I'm working on my own music.

— Peyton List

I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.

— Cass McCombs

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country…

— Lindsey Haun

I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it.

— Julian Barratt

Rock bands are a lot like us. They have to go to the arenas early for rehearsal.

— Kelly Kelly

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do…

— Padma Lakshmi

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it…

— Michael Jackson

I can't even express to you the place that I go when I'm onstage singing. It is unlike anything I've ever experienced…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

My manager, my band members, we're all good friends. You need that because a lot of times an artist will be so…

— Keith Whitley

One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em,…

— Ace Frehley

The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must…

— R. Murray Schafer

“His situation, insofar as he was a machine, was complex, tragic, and laughable. But the sacred part of him, his awareness, remained…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I prefer playing with a band. It's good to do both, but for me it's quite exciting when I hear my songs…

— Amy Macdonald

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

— Taylor Swift

I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

— Nicholas Hoult

For a rock band, I didn't see the point in live albums. To my mind, you've got to be there.

— Ian Gillan

I was in higher secondary when I participated in 'Indian Idol.' I was also learning singing at the Suresh Wadekar Institute.

— Rahul Vaidya

When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."

— Miles Davis

We're working out, watching Netflix and learning to play instruments. I think we're doing a lot of self-development, and also just trying…

— J-Hope

I generally use a lot of analog instruments, a few synths from the '80s like the Roland Juno-106, and an old Fender…

— Gus Dapperton

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.

— Natasha Leggero

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

— Nneka

“Always be the worst guy in every band you’re in. - so you can learn. The people around you affect your performance.…

— Chad Fowler

It's a very different feeling just sitting around the side, playing piano, and dancing around as opposed to standing in front and…

— Jonathan Meiburg

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

— Brandi Carlile

By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or…

— Chesney Hawkes

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

— Anonymous

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well…

— Randy Newman

If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't…

— David Toop

I started singing in my first band in 1992 so I'm coming up to 20 years in this business. That's a long time.

— Darren Hayes

It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust.…

— Kim Gordon

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

— M. Jayachandran

It's 2019. People aren't going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record.

— Nita Strauss

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

— Johnny Colt

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV…

— Maxwell

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play…

— Jimmy Page