...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
Being in two full-time rock bands is pretty impossible. I love to tour but I have a dog and I want to… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of bands have done amazing covers, but whenever we start working on it, whenever we try it… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
I had this instrument that I built in high school. It was a huge, six-foot-long stringed instrument, and I started playing with… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing,… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of… — David Lanz Copy Share Image
As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
I was 21, and I was like, "Man, am I really gonna start over and try this whole thing over again? Do… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their… — Jacoby Shaddix Copy Share Image
“Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
“I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The thing about hip-hop is, like, that the instruments were taken out of schools. But - you might have taken the instruments… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But… — PSY Copy Share Image
It's easy to record songs. Anyone can make a track on garage band. I've been on the search to find that incredibly… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was… — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
We're a little bit competitive and we want to make sure we're on the top. We're all working for the same goal… — Barry Kerch Copy Share Image
Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He… — Larry Mullen, Jr Copy Share Image
My course is about really working on a sheet of music. You work out the chords, which note complements the other, and… — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
I think it's a brave thing to be like, 'I want to be in a band.' It's like saying, 'I want to… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing...… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
My main goal is to connect with the crowd. I leave room for improv. Whatever happens, happens. When I bring my band… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm a bit multifaceted in the sense that I've got many more than one musical taste. If you think about it, I… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Following the example of Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seger, I wanted to have a band, a sound and a personality, yet maintain… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I think that there's a singular emotion that goes along with what the bands that we love mean to us. I feel… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Being a part of a band is easier to brainstorm, and it's fun - you're encouraged and inspired by the others. In… — Brendan Benson Copy Share Image
In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is… — Carl Flesch Copy Share Image
The first band I was in out of college was a Celtic band, and I had to learn to sing with a… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
I was on one bus with my band and crew for seven years. I didn't come to town with a karaoke tape.… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
