When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and… — Jack White Copy Share Image
We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
Pretty much everybody we know in Glasgow who's in a band has another job. All of us have worked in bars, cafes,… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
“I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like… — Constance Dejong Copy Share Image
“Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I work with a lot of production that's really positive and contains a lot of soul stuff. Those instrumentals project the happiness… — SonReal Copy Share Image
People need to go back and figure out why it is that Slipknot plays the way it is. That way, maybe, you… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
I saw a band called The Electric Guitars, from Bristol. I described them to Roland, and he just started playing a riff… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band,… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
My dad he doesnt play that many instruments. He played trumpet in high school band. But he made a lot of friends… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same… — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image
When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
One interesting thing - I play bass and guitar and stuff like that. I know those instruments really well. But I don't… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Not many people come out of a big band as the lead singer/songwriter and making a record, and all of a sudden… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected… — Amy Argetsinger Copy Share Image
My brother was a drummer, and he was always, like, smashing the kit around when I was a kid, and my dad… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I think basically, there are some bands and acts who feel the need to cultivate a persona or act a certain way… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
The nature of music fandom and music fans is that, very often, they fall in love with a band or a particular… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
“It is an ajtys—a singing-duel. The boy and girl stand in the eye of the village carrying on a mocking well-I-sort-of-like-you-even-if-there’s-one-or-two-weird-things-about-you-for-instance—kind of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or… — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands.… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
“You know, the sound of a 45 rpm record being played at 33 rpm. But as soon as I remembered that this… — Christopher J. Washburne Copy Share Image
I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
That's the way I came up, writing and recording at home. I developed by playing everything myself. I was a drummer first… — Pete Yorn Copy Share Image
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