I love percussive instrumentation.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas…

— Tommy Bolin

Using something that is really painful, generally, as the percussive element for a beat, I think is cool.

— Daveed Diggs

I have a sloppy style of playing guitar. A percussive style. Unique in fact.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

— Miguel Sapochnik

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and…

— Ariel Pink

We've always had a very strong focus on the instrumentation, and our approach to our individual instruments.

— John Petrucci

My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have my own…

— Mirah

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me…

— Mark Lanegan

Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in…

— Justin Broadrick

After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational evidence from…

— Raymond E. Fowler

I wanted to do an album that was very simple and very minimal in the context of instrumentation and stuff. I wanted to use…

— Sune Rose Wagner

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

— Zach Condon

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a…

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

Because I refuse to perform my music in a traditional sense of instrumentation, I don't have an amazing live stage spectacle to provide, and…

— Tim Hecker

It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without…

— Frederick Seitz