Music making Quotes · Page 96

And the songbirds keep singing. Like they know the score and I love you, I love you, I love you. Like never…

— Eva Cassidy

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's…

— Tracy Morgan

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

— Florence Welch

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

— Mike McCready

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band.…

— Bruno Mars

“m inspired by new bands that try new sounds - it's amazing to see what's out there!”

— Malese Jow

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

— Joaquin Phoenix

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer -…

— Theophilus London

I honestly felt sometimes when I was younger that there were maybe constraints within genre, like, 'Oh it's too strange if I…

— Ellie Rowsell

Years ago when I was in a cover band and we were playing dances, that was quite a different thing. You were…

— Andy Wilkinson

My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this…

— Iwan Rheon

I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come…

— Jens Lekman

The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way…

— Jon Bellion

Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could…

— Zachary Cole Smith

On stage, I have my three band mates and my guitar in front of me, and mic stand and that's like your…

— Tom Fletcher

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. I write in words. I…

— Amos Oz

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used…

— Jay McShann

Where I live, every band ever comes through, and you can see anything you want, pretty much.

— Brian Fallon

I was in bands many years ago, so that's where it started. I played in bands, sang backing vocals and all the…

— Adrian Dunbar

None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.

— Colin Marston

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

— Ewan McGregor

I went right out, got a bass and learned how to play it. I stayed inside the whole time during Christmas break…

— All American Rejects

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

— Ritchie Blackmore

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It…

— David Thibodeau

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

— Luciano Pavarotti

Chrysalis Records saw my group, Q-Tips, as a party band. They weren't doing much for our careers.

— Paul Young

I actually was consciously trying to emulate bands like Bruce Springsteen, and just trying to emulate what they do structurally.

— Tom Curren

When I was 16 I was in a neo hardcore band called Finger Charge. I played the drums with my shirt off.

— Bonobo

“As a quartet, they struck an unmusical note, primarily the fault of Ybarra-Jaega, who seemed as out of place in their company…

— Truman Capote

We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to…

— Debbi Peterson

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

— Tommy Chong

I started a band just because I wanted to be in control of whatever it is I was doing.

— Bridget Everett

Fans want real songs, they want real experiences, and they want real instruments.

— Brian Littrell

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

— Roger Taylor

I was in ballet classes, I took singing lessons, I started taking acting classes as a hobby. When I was younger, I…

— Lexi Underwood

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

— Aimee Mann

I started watching YouTube videos and singing, and it became something that I was obsessed with.

— Shawn Mendes

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

— Alex Scally

The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.

— James Hetfield