Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
I found it easy to produce. I'm not the musical guy. I can't read and play music like that, but put some… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about… — Flea Copy Share Image
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but… — David Johansen 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
There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age… — Michael Hutchence Copy Share Image
“When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.” Jon smiled. “Toad sometimes sings too, if… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk… — Marcus Miller 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
Bacharach has such a brilliant ear for melody and his music has a completely timeless feel to it; I thought it would… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
I went to a music store and I saw this machine called the Roland MC-505. It was just a groovebox - half… — Peaches Copy Share Image
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I honestly felt sometimes when I was younger that there were maybe constraints within genre, like, 'Oh it's too strange if I… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Where Miles Davis can make you feel things.That's what I'm looking for from young guys. I'm looking for somebody who not just… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as… — Adam Young Copy Share Image
I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music -… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I have loved music since I was a baby and had the chance to begin early. At 14 I had my first… — Fabio Frizzi Copy Share Image
I made records for 20 years, I lived off it. But people would say I made so many mistakes, I did so… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a… — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
Major labels have always been around our band since the beginning, and we just waited. We knew we had to do some… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of… — Dan Hawkins Copy Share Image
When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
Nowadays, there's a lot more that comes before music, that I need to take care of before I can sit down and… — Patty Schemel Copy Share Image
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
It takes a lot to put a 5-piece band on, even though we need it. We need those harmonies; I need those… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . .… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an… — Karan Singh Grover Copy Share Image
Coming from a dance background, I was in competitions every single weekend, so I've been put on the spot since I was… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
I've literally never seen a crowd react to a band the way they react to the Polysics. Signing them to MySpace Records… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
