Music making Quotes · Page 91

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

— Cassandra Wilson

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio.…

— Lady Gaga

We didn't get into this to be a cool indie band. When radio caught on, that made a little more sense. We…

— Jesse Rutherford

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to…

— Deana Carter

“A brick could be used as a musical instrument. But it would take someone as deaf as Beethoven to enjoy it.
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— Jarod Kintz

I learned all about big band arrangement and symphony arrangement and writing for strings.

— Jack Conte

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

— Travis Barker

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

— Gina Schock

Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision…

— Tom Morello

When we first started, and I jumped in this band, I was like, 'I'm not a singer.' I didn't go to school…

— Sonny Sandoval

In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where…

— Joscelyn Godwin

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind…

— Tom Felton

I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the…

— Jonathan Tropper

I'm almost a black singer. And without the backbeat, it's singer/songwriter. There's a definite choice to be made there, every time. And…

— John Waite

First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a…

— Murray Head

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs,…

— Matana Roberts

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get…

— Bob Geldof

I create a guise or a band that I can operate within, and within each one of those bands, I've got an…

— Mike Patton

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

— Bryce Dessner

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

— Pat Metheny

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

— Jeff Ament

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

— Wynton Marsalis

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

— John Coltrane

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

— Joseph Joubert

Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band.

— John Petrucci

I was asked to be in Elton John's band, Joni Mitchell's band, and Miles Davis' band. I couldn't do it.

— Steve Lukather

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

— Tessanne Chin

When we were growing up, Russell and I were into The Who, The Move, The Kinks, early Pink Floyd, really good tight…

— Ron Mael

I think K-pop bands rock, and their success raises my spirit to perform better on stage.

— Eric Nam

The Mahavishnu Orchestra - when it came out, it was an explosion, completely unexpected as far as I was concerned. I was…

— John McLaughlin

In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk,…

— Miles Davis

People don't think of cello as a rock instrument, really, and we want people to know all the possibilities that the cello…

— Luka Sulic

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

— Jerry Cantrell

I'm a social person, and I'm used to working as a band member. I like that. I like being a part of…

— Sara Bareilles

People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.

— Harry Dean Stanton

My dad conducted the Disneyland band since I was born, and I was around big band music a lot.

— Josh Freese

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

— John McLaughlin

Road to Ruin' had different instruments, different sounds. The production was different.

— Marky Ramone

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

— Wayne Static

That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not…

— Liam Gallagher