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
I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of… — John Bush Copy Share Image
We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I got asked by four different people that they wanted to know if I had a band what would I call it.Soo..I… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
My favorite records are by bands where the musicians are all playing like themselves, but those personalities connect in an exciting way… — Dylan Baldi Copy Share Image
When Taylor Swift was first beginning to really take off, a couple of guys I knew in her band called and offered… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment,… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I might be a completely different kind of songwriter but I definitely think there are some things... I've taken pieces from different… — Mark Stoermer Copy Share Image
As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play… — Lydia Lunch 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
There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and as the crowds started to get bigger, it… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the… — Zedd Copy Share Image
I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brothers a drummer and Ive always been jealous that hes such a… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
When we first started as a band we knew we could all sing and we took harmonies from Mayday Parade which doesn't… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
I think there's a fallacy that's been concocted by the music teachers' profession, to wit: that there's a certain sequence of events… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they… — Alan Light Copy Share Image
I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
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“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how play best, but with a listener who understands nothing or does not wish… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I… — Coby Bell Copy Share Image
What happened was I discovered that even though 'Tightrope' had bombed in the United States, it was a big hit in Latin… — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part for musicians is what a wide gulf of time there is between when you decide to sober… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music,… — Hafez Nazeri Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff.… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love… — George Benson Copy Share Image
We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands,… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
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