If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
“The singing triggers a soft detonation at his core, molten parts of him are flying everywhere and his ears ring to the… — Ben Fountain 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
I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I… — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
I like that kind of classic-type sound. A lot of my favorite albums were tracked live, with a four-piece band. I love… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole… — Jason Reeves 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
Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out… — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
Not a lot of hard rock bands are just letting it all be - they're adding a lot of samples on things,… — Johnny Christ Copy Share Image
It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
If a band isn't coming up with two to four of those when they pick up their instruments, then they have problems… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in 'Unconditional Love,' it was just singing for singing's… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want… — Yanni Copy Share Image
The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
I love working in film and television, but I do miss singing on stage. You can't find that anywhere else, so I… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a… — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
I remember my uncle, who was a jazz pianist, when we did Deep Purple 'In Rock,' he ran from the room screaming,… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I can't even express to you the place that I go when I'm onstage singing. It is unlike anything I've ever experienced… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit.… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
When I was studying in secondary school, a teacher recommended me during a singing contest. I took the championship because of my… — Daesung Copy Share Image
I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went… — Sean Combs Copy Share Image
On stage, it's very naked. There's a reason you shake your knees. You're very vulnerable, cos it's just you, your body is… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Electronic technology has been a part of music making and music listening for a century. We always treat it like it's new,… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out.… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
“Toph kicks over the microphone stand in a grand, asshole gesture, and the three of them jump off the stage. It's a… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
“If you don’t have a sense of humour when you’re in a band, you end up like f**king Emerson, Lake and Palmer,… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
