When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups everywhere are learning the instrument to relieve stress, focus their minds – and for the sheer joy it brings.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We had a band called the Grainers. In our 12-year-old minds, this was like a double entendre for like being annoying and… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry. — James Maslow Copy Share Image
The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
I was in a party band in the early '80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's… — Dolora Zajick Copy Share Image
For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
You hope to catch the band on a good night and you hope that it sounds good when you hear the tapes… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
I've got childhood friends who are working for non-profit foundations, or who are running for state senate and doing things that actually… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music… — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
“Melody had heard some of these people from the Ukraine singing. He hadn’t understood one word. Yet he didn’t have to know… — William Attaway Copy Share Image
Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with… — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi Copy Share Image
Some days I want to look like I belong in a metal band, some days I want to look like I belong… — Coco Gauff Copy Share Image
I just find it weird if you're in a band and you don't know how to make it look the way it… — Hunx Copy Share Image
In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
“You're like a band-aid that is slowly ripping off, and I'm still wounded!” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my… — Flea Copy Share Image
It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
“It's not the instrument that makes the music beautiful - it's the musician.” — Michael Baron Copy Share Image
I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I can't afford back up vocalists; they're so expensive. Because I'm independent - I'm not signed to a major label, which a… — Nick Murphy Copy Share Image
“Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife. Nonmusicians don't understand. An instrument is… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When I first started doing music I was singing, then I started rappin, then I came back to the singing. It was… — T-Pain Copy Share Image
I love playing guitar every night, and to be at this point where it's like, the songs are done and I'm happy… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they… — Kip Winger Copy Share Image
Instruments are expensive, aren't they? But it's your art though. It's a lot of money but it's your instrument - imagine buying… — NAO Copy Share Image
When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image