Music making Quotes · Page 77

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

— Alexander Pope

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

— Dick Dale

Whatever my singing aspirations are, you'll hear them in 'Aap Ka Suroor.' It's no run-of-the-mill album.

— Himesh Reshammiya

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for…

— Matt Cameron

We write serious music, but we also are a real band where we don't take ourselves too seriously.

— Chad Gilbert

“A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I worked in a band a long time. As we got older, we became more aware of soul and jazz.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I don't understand how those old bands did it. We worked out early on that if we did three gigs in a…

— Winston Marshall

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you…

— Dexter Holland

When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio.…

— Georgia Nott

Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And…

— Grace Potter

“I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe.…

— John Steinbeck

“Followed like a goat on a halter, hungry dog closing on his just-filled dinner bowl, water-bottle and towel carrier behind the tuba…

— Dennis Vickers

I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the…

— Jill Scott

I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very…

— Lauryn Hill

Singing is a tricky business so I sort of had to work at ir. But it's also sort of natural. That's my…

— Colter Wall

Most singers begin with a band and then go solo. I started making music on my own and subsequently chose to carry…

— Natalia Lafourcade

When you stop worrying about all the things that can go along with playing in a band and you let go and…

— Tad Kubler

At 10 years old, I was in my church band, playing in front of a couple thousand people every week.

— Bazzi

“The chief musician-a sergeant-led the twelve-nuan regimental band that provided entertainment as well as the music to which the army marched and…

— Richard Bruce Winders

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different…

— Tom Wopat

I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically.

— Synyster Gates

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with…

— Tommy Shaw

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

— Bruce McCulloch

As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles…

— Fawad Khan

Oh, I'm not a very good singer, and that's 'cause I was always embarrassed about my singing.

— J. J. Cale

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

— Sebastian Bach

People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.

— M. Shadows

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it…

— Jose Carreras

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a…

— Atif Aslam

I just sing. I'm a singer who likes to sing, so if I find something that I do, it's to sing.

— Mason Ramsey

People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.

— Curt Smith

Good evening everybody, my name is Robbie Williams, this is my band and for the next two hours YOUR ASS IS MINE!

— Robbie Williams

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

— Kanye West

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

— Andrea Bocelli

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you…

— Amy Winehouse

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

— Jeremy Piven

This band is curious enough in the brain, we like to twist things around which is nice.

— Cliff Burton