“Nobody in this band was a musician when they joined up, but everybody was in some kind of trouble. Play con entusiasmo,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
You don't get anything easy when you come from a big band and you go and start another one. You learn real… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
We were different. We were a rainbow. The music was a combination of all types of music. You could hear R&B, jazz,… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo,… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
“When they find out what I do for a living, many people tell me they love music listening, but their music lessons… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
I brought the music out to L.A., and the producer Tommy LaPuma heard it and he said - "Man, I love it.… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
You are an instrument if you understand your voice and how to use it - this sound, that sound and certain ranges… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
My dad wanted to be a musician, so when I started playing guitar, he was like, 'Go for it.' That is what… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I'm just a music fan. I like pretty much all types of music, and I feel like I can get something out… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of hiphop music and R'n'B. Bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Big… — Taboo Copy Share Image
Congregational singing is a holy act, and as I organize my thoughts, I hear my old pastor, Alistair Begg, reminding me that… — Keith Getty Copy Share Image
I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“You want to fuck the singer, but you would suck on any of them. A rim job, a piss shower, wouldn't matter.… — Amanda Boyden Copy Share Image
When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music...… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
People think because I'm crazy, I don't know anything. My dad played bass with Hector Lavoe, with Marc Anthony, with Ricky Martin,… — Anuel AA Copy Share Image
That's what bands like Pink Floyd and bands like Rush and even the Metallica of this world have, which is long, ambitious… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
One thing I've always been proud of is that vicious dichotomy between the pretty controlled, angular playing of the band, and my… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of… — John Bush Copy Share Image
One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of… — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
We definitely were a punk band. When we got in with our producer, Richard Gottehrer, he slowed everything down so that you… — Gina Schock Copy Share Image
We formed this band when we were 18-19, we couldn't play... We were just like 'Let's get together and play some cover… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
“Why, masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i’ the nose thus? FIRST MUSICIAN How, sir, how! CLOWN Are… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I really believed music was going to be a big part of my future, and that's why I took a truck driving… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing,… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
I think that's what propelled our band, the fact that we put on something that was visibly attractive to people and then… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
You're just these kids from a small town. You get a record deal, and everything just goes so fast. In the span… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
My first CD started as a studio project and I record everything with one other guy, so I didn't have a band.… — Borns Copy Share Image
