I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy,… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
We had a band called the Grainers. In our 12-year-old minds, this was like a double entendre for like being annoying and… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin… — T-Bone Walker Copy Share Image
Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel. It moves you - the bass literally shakes you and rocks you… — Bijou Phillips Copy Share Image
I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had… — Roger Bart Copy Share Image
Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
I can't really sing and play live, because I can't play bass efficiently and sing at the same time. If I concentrated… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
You need to make people think about society in a less literal and more primal way. It's about using the least amount… — Kenny Beats Copy Share Image
The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven,… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
Okay, I get kicked off the drums when I try and...the notes just keep coming at you and I'm like "Ahhhhh!" I… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can listen to music - sometimes there's no choice, especially if I'm out writing at a coffee place. But sometimes… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
“Anything with drums, bass, and guitars is under the pop umbrella. We'll continue to try new sounds as long as we're a… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
There was one lady in a club we played regularly who was also a fan of Sly Stone on the radio at… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and… — Howard Frank Mosher Copy Share Image
As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I watched John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers play it acoustically at their gig at the MEN Arena. I think… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Boy you got my heartbeat runnin away Beatin like a drum & it's comin your way Cant you hear that Boom badoom… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
Bass! How low can you go? Death row...what a brother know. Once again, back is the incredible, The rhyme animal, the uncannable… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Amon Tobin has been producing electronic music since the mid-'90s, and was a key figure in the rise of drum-and-bass. He's also… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation.… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man.… — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey… — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
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