A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need,… — Ronnie Hawkins Copy Share Image
I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Back in the Eighties, I used to write ballads on my acoustic guitar, so it seems very natural to me to go… — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you. — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
For about three years I was playing clubs and theatres, I had a band, and I made a recording a few years… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images,… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went… — Sean Combs Copy Share Image
I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable… — Katherine Shindle Copy Share Image
You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they… — Kip Winger Copy Share Image
Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I'm more of an actor than a musician. I've made a little name for myself as an actor, but I also front… — Todd Lowe Copy Share Image
My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor. — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking… — Matt Cameron Copy Share Image
With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence. — Jerry Cantrell Copy Share Image
I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice,… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song. — Nanci Griffith Copy Share Image
Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Singing has always been my big passion and I would love to be able to go to the U.S. and perform more. — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better. — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money. — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes. — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebelling would… — Holly Marie Combs Copy Share Image
After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But… — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals! — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
