For the name Lion Babe, we are a little avant-garde, a little left. And with bands like Blondie, Pink Floyd, or Jamiroquai,… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
In a band with humor, it's easy to be a caricature, especially when you've been around as long as we have. But… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
When I started off in Wales, I sang and accompanied myself with guitar in the '50s. And then I got a band… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf." I say, "You're not… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
You see a lot of bands and a lot of artists making that mistake: They become successful for doing something, and then… — Passenger Copy Share Image
I remember in the days when we started, when we first went on the road, we went to Berkeley and played with… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and… — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the… — Lata Mangeshkar Copy Share Image
At The Verve's first-ever gig, I said that we were gonna blow this local band off the stage. It was only in… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
“After sex, they would often lie in bed listening to the record. She never tired of it. “Armstrong’s trumpet and singing are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
... even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
We had a wonderful department that scouted out new music. It was beneficial to Rolling Stone, because I would come back and… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
No matter what you're doing, whether you have a business with someone, a band with someone, when you feel confident that your… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
If I call you playing my music, you'll be like, 'Oh, that's Gunna.' Even on a song you ain't heard, you're gonna… — Gunna Copy Share Image
I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But,… — Butterfly Boucher Copy Share Image
Most people might think that I've come from a musical background, but nobody in my family was in any kind of band… — Lunice Copy Share Image
Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Shellac was asked to do a recreation of our first album, but we've always been a band that improvised our sets. That's… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
“They start setting up on a little left stage playing my secret favorite song: the rustling of sheet music and set lists,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
It's the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who's always… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
Everybody brought something unique to System of a Down, and the bottom line is when you go and do your own project,… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image