In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments. It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other.… — Beck Copy Share Image
The producing side is always a hard thing for me. I look at Flying Lotus and see producers dropping instrumentals, and I… — Kaytranada Copy Share Image
A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
I actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
Mostly by [listening to] Green Day. I listened to music a little bit before I had heard of them, but after I'd… — Agent M Copy Share Image
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
The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet… — Zephaniah Copy Share Image
“You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music,… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
We really hated being in a band. The joy for us and why we slipped nicely and neatly into it was because… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
It's very tempting for certain generations to say, 'Well, I just want to be in a band, and I want to be… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band and we worked really hard and did not get… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I… — George Benson Copy Share Image
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician.… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky,… — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have… — Caleb Shomo Copy Share Image
That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I… — James Iha Copy Share Image
The reason I wanted to play guitar was because I saw Buddy Holly and then our own homegrown Shadows on TV in… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When people ask me, 'Are you a singer?' I say, 'No, I'm not a 'singer' - but I love the craft of… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
“As individuals they were each of them fallible, discordant as notes without harmony. But as a band they were something more, something… — Nicholas Eames Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A lot of bands, they take a lot of planning to do a live record. They have to hire a crew, and… — John 5 Copy Share Image
We'll never ever be as good on record as we are live because we're not a full band unless those kids are… — Chris Carrabba Copy Share Image
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
![“Mostly by [listening to] Green Day. I listened to music a little bit before I had heard of them, but after I'd heard of them, I knew music was my calling. I listened to it all day, and I loved it so much that I wanted to be a part of it, so I worked on being in a band from there.” quote by Agent M](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f07/agent-m-67040_band_mostly-by-listening-to-green-day-i-liste_132689.jpg)
