Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity. — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette,… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something -- writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a… — Joan Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We had a band with our parents called Rockenhaim and we only played covers and our first gig was at a deli… — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I can tell you that creating a band and trying to get it to the next level takes a colossal amount of… — Tom Sandoval Copy Share Image
I thought my singing and songwriting were good, but nothing different. Then you're presented with this picture image that contradicts the impression… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time, 'Why don't don't you ever do drum clinics?' And my reply is always that I like… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock… — Mark Alan Stamaty Copy Share Image
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
The reason for a lot of bands not making it is because they don't really understand that your job is sort of… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound. — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
I think that when I started singing, I didn't know what I wanted to do; I only knew what I didn't want… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records. — Sonny Bono Copy Share Image
By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever,… — Josh Homme 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
The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that.… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not… — Nainoa Thompson Copy Share Image
Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've… — Jane Monheit Copy Share Image
I was with Miles Davisfor a couple of years as his bass player, and it was a beautiful experience. After two years… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
This ain't no fucking sing-along. So girl what you singing for? It's cause we blowing like a C4, got my whole crew… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
The way that I write music is that I listen to a song I love and I copy it. And songs that… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set… — Beck Copy Share Image
When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers. — Yusaku Maezawa Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
It's so much fun to have vocal groups out on the road because we get to see them do their thing, and… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
