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
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
“(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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a… — Paul Haslinger Copy Share Image
When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting.… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The rhythm, the sounds, the tonality, the chord sequences, the individual effect of each instrument and each section of the band -… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted… — Daniel Johns Copy Share Image
The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part… — Eddie Pepitone Copy Share Image
We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me,… — Matt Cameron Copy Share Image
It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
Once you start out, you are kind of finding out who you are, and then by the time you get to the… — Steve Harris Copy Share Image
![“There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous…” quote by Black Francis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d57/black-francis-28197_firsts_there-was-a-f-king-review-in-f-king-melo_87084.jpg)
