Music making Quote by John Flansburgh Download Open image “We've been a band longer than most of the people reading this have been alive.” — John Flansburgh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Music making People Reading
We're still evolving as a band. I think that's really important for a band to do, especially after being around for so many years. — Jim Root Copy Share Image
I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
We all enjoy the band and what we're doing, but we know this isn't gonna last forever. — Shannon Hoon Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be… — Andrew Fletcher Copy Share Image
There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit. — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people. — David Bryan Copy Share Image
The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together. — Josh Silver Copy Share Image
In a certain way, longevity is its own kind of success. While we would like to be in the position of those bands that… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated. — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Every declarative statement that comes out of an interview with somebody is actually in response to a question. It's like this very real interpersonal… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
There have been times I wanted to cry on interview, but it hasn't been because that's what they're trying to conjure. No. I think… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers. — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
I think the biggest wrestling match-up I have is how to respond to the word "quirky." Or the alternate, "nerdy." Both are essentially benign… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The simplest app on your smartphone requires 40 peoples' purest imagination. The challenges with people on environment, we just have to open some of… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we started. We… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will ask a real "Why are you beating your wife?" question where there's some assumption built into it, and all you're trying… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Bill O'Reilly knew he could just filibuster and enjoy all the airtime that a full interview would give him, and then also grab the… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
I don't think bands should feel compelled to speak out unless they actually have something to say. I think that's a big mistake, where… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best. — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
