My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Electronic technology has been a part of music making and music listening for a century. We always treat it like it's new,… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
I conceived of a concept, a project, a band. The Tide. The Tide, acting as a sonic exemplar of flow and fluidity.… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
Anyone can pick up an instrument if they want to express themselves or write a song and put it on YouTube. It's… — Dalip Tahil Copy Share Image
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you… — Common Copy Share Image
I come from an old school of thought where there are musicians on stage, in the house, sitting and jamming to create… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
Some musicians make and record music; other musicians play in a band... I just make and record music, and I don't feel… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a… — Penn Dayton Badgley Copy Share Image
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
“And now above and beyond the birds' song, Andy hears a more distant singing, whether of voices or instruments, sounds or words,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
A band that makes records and tours is also a business. That's usually where a lot of disagreements come. It's four guys… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you; he will quiet you… — Nancy Grisham Copy Share Image
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I've been interested in hip-hop since it first appeared: the fact that it was born not in the music industry but on… — Shinichiro Watanabe Copy Share Image
I think it’s really important, and it’s a lesson I didn’t learn until my late teens: Whatever bands that you love, go… — Brad Wilk Copy Share Image
The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies,… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts.… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Well actually I'm not a man but a carrot. The band was eating salads one day and a carrot fell off of… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
If you're trying to get a lot of money and attention and cars and just stuff like that, being in a band… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
When I called 'Cut 4 Me' a mixtape, I was thinking about a few elements: One is used instrumentals. The project is… — Kelela Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has… — Moby Copy Share Image
I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've… — Jane Monheit Copy Share Image
It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to… — James Iha Copy Share Image
It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
I got one of the best sax players in the business - Arno Hecht. He plays with the Uptown Horns and all… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
I'm the one who made me you can call that man made, help you get your bands up you can call that… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
Some people ask me what instruments I play, but usually I'll just say I'm more of a producer or a composer or… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
