“It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.” - Benny Goodman, The King of Swing reply… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
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Our dad was always like, 'Look, if you're musical, if you live and breathe music and want to play an instrument, that's… — Erin Foster Copy Share Image
It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Id just been singing all the time. Id been singing at like my friends club nights and at parties and with improvised… — Florence And The Machine Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure… — Chris McCaughan Copy Share Image
The real producers back in the day didn't sit there and play every single instrument. They made sure the record had the… — Kenny Beats 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
It is difficult to understand the fortunes of an instrument. There was music written for the guitar until the mid-19th century. Then… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull… — Bill Cobbs Copy Share Image
I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
Your more a God to me than anyone who believes in something invisible. You have always been there for me through your… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
“and echoes to my singing. More sounds went on—an arc-like melody created using an echo machine, and then a guitar solo at… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
I love doing it. It's great. I love doing the sessions, 'cause you're kind of like in a different band every day.… — John 5 Copy Share Image
I always freak out when people ask me about my favorite bands or my five favorite records, I just can never do… — John Bush Copy Share Image
When you're making music or playing a song, I find the moments when there are no instruments being played even stronger than… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands.… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
“You know, the sound of a 45 rpm record being played at 33 rpm. But as soon as I remembered that this… — Christopher J. Washburne Copy Share Image
I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
If a band isn't coming up with two to four of those when they pick up their instruments, then they have problems… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount… — Janis Joplin 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
And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
That's the way I came up, writing and recording at home. I developed by playing everything myself. I was a drummer first… — Pete Yorn Copy Share Image
I was playing surf music with my band when a girlfriend of mine who had come from Los Angeles took me to… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
When we are out on the road, running up and down the road playing shows, you have to be not only a… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
I was in bands growing up around town as a kid, like bands in the local kind of hardcore scene that we… — Jesse Rutherford Copy Share Image
Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
One interesting thing - I play bass and guitar and stuff like that. I know those instruments really well. But I don't… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
My dad he doesnt play that many instruments. He played trumpet in high school band. But he made a lot of friends… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
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