I don't know what to say... There's always animosity when a singer leaves a band. It's like you're a football team and… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
I don't really hear much music these days that grabs me. I think there are a lot of reasons for this but… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with… — Renee Fleming 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
I spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
I wanted to have a band that could rock as hard as the Who and sing like the Beatles and the Beach… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
Everything is so computerized these days and it's all edited and everything. Everything sounds so perfect, and we just want to be… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way.… — Roy Wood Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a… — Alice Nutter Copy Share Image
You know, there's so many great bands out there, visual bands, that we have to do something that makes us individual, and… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“My soul is like a hidden orchestra; I do not know which instruments grind and play away inside of me, strings and… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some… — David Cassidy 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
I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real… — John 5 Copy Share Image
To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
You go with what you 'get,' and I get playing the guitar. It's a challenge because it's not an easy instrument to… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
If Thirty Seconds to Mars was a human being then he fans would be the veins and the band would be the… — Shannon Leto Copy Share Image
They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work… — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The smaller the instrument or more hidden it is such as electronics, the more esoteric it becomes and in my mind becomes… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when… — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a song, and they say,… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
For the longest time, I was just playing music and not really expecting any success - just kind of doing it because… — A.C. Newman Copy Share Image
“In America, music was the first sphere of social interaction in which racial barriers were challenged and overturned. And the challenge went… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We wanted to be a little all over the place and play crowd favorites from all genres and we also want to… — Tom Sandoval Copy Share Image
When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
It costs lots of money to make records. It costs lots of money to generate artwork and manufacture and then ship things… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
P.O.D. kind of built that brand name. We came out and have been open about our faith. We've always been a positive… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
The hardest part, for me, is being in the band and knowing the way I want certain things to sound, but also… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
Pop music written in guitar band formation was really popular in the '70s, with Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan. We wanted to… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
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