“An instrument that does not help to attain the ultimate goal (Self realization) cannot be considered as spirituality at all!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though. — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity. — Dizzy Gillespie Copy Share Image
I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV… — Keren Woodward Copy Share Image
Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different. — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young'… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing,… — Dick Miller Copy Share Image
The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have… — Caleb Shomo Copy Share Image
I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back,… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that.… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
With Klaxons I had an instrument, so I had a job to play keys. Everyone's roles get defined early in bands, so… — James Righton Copy Share Image
I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the… — Chris Reifert 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
Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me. — Rafal Blechacz 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
I like to go to concerts because I love to see my favorite band through the phone of the asshole who's standing… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I cam to sing remains unsung. Rabindranath Tagore” — Christina Carson Copy Share Image
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
“A great band name would be Tickling Whiskers. Especially if the lead singer is a cat. I’d love to audition for backup… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it. — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if… — Edith Piaf Copy Share Image
“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
A writers soul is an instrument of music that plays the songs in the shadows of life and paints the secret things… — Doreen F Graves Copy Share Image
In the band's early days people didn't really know what we were, and they decided to shout at us before listening to… — James Righton Copy Share Image
“The guitar breathed. It inhaled and exhaled, and music filled the shop as the instrument picked the heartbreak of generations.” — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it… — Lucy Boynton Copy Share Image
There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz… — Jeremih Copy Share Image
