Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I think a "song" is, like, just play it on the guitar and sing it. You look out and see thousands of… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I'm more of an actor than a musician. I've made a little name for myself as an actor, but I also front… — Todd Lowe Copy Share Image
Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
“I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“Followed like a goat on a halter, hungry dog closing on his just-filled dinner bowl, water-bottle and towel carrier behind the tuba… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I don't understand how those old bands did it. We worked out early on that if we did three gigs in a… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you… — Dexter Holland Copy Share Image
When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio.… — Georgia Nott Copy Share Image
Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been… — Zedd Copy Share Image
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I was growing up at a time when music was growing and changing so fast. I had learned all the big band… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to… — Barry Kerch Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch,… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms… — Joe Lovano Copy Share Image
I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that… — Theresa Wayman Copy Share Image
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the… — George Benson Copy Share Image
I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three… — Richard Pinhas Copy Share Image
I love playing guitar every night, and to be at this point where it's like, the songs are done and I'm happy… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it's gonna have all live instruments in it, I'll probably… — Syd Copy Share Image
“Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
“But when she got going, on numbers like “Pulse Fiction” and “Delancey Street Blues,” she had that same air of having been… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
When I was playing with the Truckers, a lot of really good things happened. And we had a good trajectory for a… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I would say when you're dealing with live musicians and musicality, the warmth of a live instrument brings a certain feel to… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
The careers that always impressed me, and the people that I've always looked up to, are the ones who've been around forever:… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image