When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Newfound Glory. I didn't… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really,… — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
A lot of guys picked up an instrument because they couldn't get girls to pay attention to them in high school. They… — Bebe Buell Copy Share Image
I love performing with a band way more than a track, just because it gets a whole new kind of vibe going… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and,… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
“I was never one to pull a band aid off slowly. Besides, we could be struck by lightning right now and I… — Natasha Boyd Copy Share Image
“golden tunnel. Light poured out of it and washed over me, and something close to singing reached my ears. Heartbreakingly beautiful singing.… — J.R. Rain Copy Share Image
Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always… — Jacob Latimore 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… — Andrew Fletcher Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm a fifth of Punch Brothers... that's lucky for me because I feel like I get to operate in… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this… — Beck Copy Share Image
I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my… — Juanes Copy Share Image
I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
Bands such as LiLiPUT and Essential Logic were just as unorthodox as Gang of Four or Wire, even taking their sounds a… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part… — Nicky Romero Copy Share Image
Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings,… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I write these songs and I like the idea of letting the band interpret it as they will. This band is like… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
I love music with real instruments. I'm not one of those guys that's a purist about analog vs. digital, but I love… — Frank Dukes Copy Share Image
I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an… — Karan Singh Grover Copy Share Image
Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all… — Trevor Hall Copy Share Image
Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
“People always asked me how the band played like it did night after night, almost murderously consistent, NEVER stagnant and always full… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and… — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become… — Dan Hawkins Copy Share Image
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