Band Quote by Andrew Bird

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

— Andrew Bird

There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency…

— Bruce Molsky

I have been whistling songs from childhood. I suppose it compensated for a lack of singing voice and satisfied my musical appetite.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.

— Anne Bosworth Greene

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

— Amy Winehouse

“More so than with any other instrument, the violin becomes part of the body. Good musicians are physically dissolved when playing, and for violinists,…

— Lavinia Greenlaw

“Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one…

— Tom Piazza

I realised, however, that you can't sing when you're playing the violin - or at least I can't - and as that aspect of…

— Freya Ridings

It's like being an athlete; you get into a certain shape where you really have the right wind, because it's all to do with…

— Liza Minnelli

The violin sings.

— Joshua Bell

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a…

— Evan Parker

When you're a musician and you come from a singing background, specifically one that focused a lot on a cappella music as I have,…

— Nick Lachey