When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is… — Billy Sheehan Copy Share Image
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand,… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
I've got childhood friends who are working for non-profit foundations, or who are running for state senate and doing things that actually… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
I always wanted to play music, and always loved it. I saw a band come to school, when I was in elementary… — Patty Schemel Copy Share Image
I never had that desire to start or join a rock band. Nor did I ever have a desire to see my… — Diane Birch Copy Share Image
Sometimes things get too layered and compressed or there's too many effects and they turn into mush on record. I strive to… — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
“If you don’t have a sense of humour when you’re in a band, you end up like f**king Emerson, Lake and Palmer,… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
During the course of our career, we've always managed to go outside of even our own box. We started experimenting with the… — B-Real Copy Share Image
Over the years, I was lucky; right from the beginning, I studied with a lady who had a lot of... she was… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
Nirvana, Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins, all those bands, at their core, are just really incredible pop music and I think a lot… — Frank Dukes Copy Share Image
I've literally never seen a crowd react to a band the way they react to the Polysics. Signing them to MySpace Records… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Ive got three brothers and a sister; everybody played an instrument. When I was at Manchester United and I broke my leg… — Dion Dublin Copy Share Image
I collect many ethnic instruments, and as a guitarist, I'm usually able to play any sort of instrument - as long as… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
This is sad. I just think it’s a little ridiculous we are still only looking at the surface of one another. Red… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
“Simon's band never actually produced any music. Mostly they sat around in Simon's living room, fighting about potential names and band logos.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of… — Dan Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I love working in film and television, but I do miss singing on stage. You can't find that anywhere else, so I… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
I had my first band. it was kind of a progressive metal band kind of thing. I just started writing songs that… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to… — Paul Winter Copy Share Image
No matter what you're doing, whether you have a business with someone, a band with someone, when you feel confident that your… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick,… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career… — Adrian Smith Copy Share Image
I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm writing songs I find myself in that Teskey Brothers soul world and I'm like, 'This is not a G… — G Flip Copy Share Image
I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I feel like fans really want to spread the word about the band. I guess when you've done three records, you feel… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico… — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image