Music making Quotes · Page 94

One of the best things about being in a band for so long and having any level of success is the opportunity…

— Tony Kanal

The band likes to be different which each album, so that the listener is taken on a fascinating, but different journey each…

— Maria Brink

I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

— Rita Wilson

I am not playing on stage. I am living the situation. I cannot cut emotions and sing. I never save myself.

— Kristine Opolais

People ask me all the time, 'Why don't don't you ever do drum clinics?' And my reply is always that I like…

— Vinnie Paul

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

— Jack Brymer

I suppose you have to be careful what you sing, because you might have to do it.

— Lisa Stansfield

I played a song that I wrote and thats what got me into the band. -Siva Kaneswaran

— The Wanted

We sing a lot of the soundtrack in this film [Swiss Army Man] - me and Paul Dano - and on the…

— Daniel Radcliffe

There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement.…

— Sam Amidon

Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.'…

— Kristian Bush

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a…

— Jack Irons

Hopefully we can be a band who has a career like U2 or Aerosmith or somebody like that but that's very far…

— Barry Kerch

An album represents an artist or a band or a group of musicians at any given moment in time. You just produce…

— Ian Gillan

For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a…

— Erik Rutan

Not only are we not using any programmed loops or computers onstage, we're also improvising with our instruments. We're playing our instruments…

— Brendan Benson

I don't think that a lot of my favorite producers or bands would produce our albums or even play on them, unfortunately.

— Chad Gilbert

People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it…

— Lucy Boynton

Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but…

— Dave Clark

I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.

— Volker Bertelmann

I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I…

— Jessica Sanchez

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

— Ben Jackson

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

— Beth Ditto

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet…

— Geezer Butler

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

— David Bowie

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

— Sarah Paulson

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

— Beck

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

— Ezra Koenig

When you do watch a band that are actually playing their parts, that's so fun to watch.

— Ellie Rowsell

You've got these dance bands that, when you see them live, everything's on tape. It might not even be them singing, and…

— Marky Ramone

I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.

— Alissa White-Gluz

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I…

— Rachel Stevens

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad…

— Skylar Grey

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

— Francis of Assisi

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

— Michala Petri

My father was always in bands. He played drums and could sing. And my grandfather was a band leader.

— Randy Rainbow

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting,…

— Mike Shinoda

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

— Jeff Lynne

Performing outside is always kind of strange. Usually, you can't hear something, whether it's your voice or instrument, but it's a fun…

— Jack Garratt

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

— John Cale