I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know…

To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts…

— Russell Sherman

As soon as 'Still D.R.E.' starts playing, you know what it is because of the melody. Most of the world's biggest records are less…

— Scott Storch

When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was that if…

— Tim McGraw

I didn't know the piano only has 12 notes. It's just different octaves of the same 12 notes. When I figured that out, I…

— James Ingram

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

— Peter Max

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

— Howard Shore

“If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll…

— Dean Koontz

Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.

— Andy Summers

I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

— R. Kelly

I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings…

— Allison Janney

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

— Alicia Keys

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

— Harry Connick, Jr

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

— Paul Simonon

Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan,…

— Otto Penzler

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

— Suzi Quatro