I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Pretty much everybody we know in Glasgow who's in a band has another job. All of us have worked in bars, cafes,… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
“I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like… — Constance Dejong Copy Share Image
“Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
People need to go back and figure out why it is that Slipknot plays the way it is. That way, maybe, you… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
I work with a lot of production that's really positive and contains a lot of soul stuff. Those instrumentals project the happiness… — SonReal Copy Share Image
My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
“In one room the carpet had been rolled back, and a hunchback wearing a velvet smoking-jacket was playing an accordion, writhing backwards… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“(Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of sings (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
When I was 17, my main goal was to be in a band and travel the world. I ended up getting to… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore,… — Eric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a… — J Balvin Copy Share Image
I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
See, I have to do my best because I am not as glamorous or as well-equipped like a Beyonce Knowles or Michael… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
I'm a drummer. I've been playing since I was three. I was in college bands when I was in elementary school: you'd… — AraabMuzik Copy Share Image
I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
For fun, I love to play the drums... poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds - we got together,… — William Jackson Harper Copy Share Image
After leaving my old band, Invictory, my good friend Brayden Pierce asked me to play guitar for his solo project which evolved… — Tom Sandoval Copy Share Image
And the next album I do is going to be different because I'm going to change. I already did that thing where… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
At the time of 'The Epic,' as a core band, we were all spending so much time apart making music for other… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I… — Paulina Rubio Copy Share Image
I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
When I started playing solo 10 years ago, I had some ham-fisted idea about trying to subvert the "singer-songwriter" tag/genre, and I… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The producing side is always a hard thing for me. I look at Flying Lotus and see producers dropping instrumentals, and I… — Kaytranada Copy Share Image
In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments. It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other.… — Beck Copy Share Image
A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
I actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
Mostly by [listening to] Green Day. I listened to music a little bit before I had heard of them, but after I'd… — Agent M Copy Share Image
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is… — Usher Copy Share Image
Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
What is a seemingly conservative Englishman doing, leading the world in the mastery of a classically Spanish instrument? Debussy wrote some of… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
I spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
![“Mostly by [listening to] Green Day. I listened to music a little bit before I had heard of them, but after I'd heard of them, I knew music was my calling. I listened to it all day, and I loved it so much that I wanted to be a part of it, so I worked on being in a band from there.” quote by Agent M](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f07/agent-m-67040_band_mostly-by-listening-to-green-day-i-liste_132689.jpg)
