When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band,… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
I saw a band called The Electric Guitars, from Bristol. I described them to Roland, and he just started playing a riff… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
The nature of music fandom and music fans is that, very often, they fall in love with a band or a particular… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
I think basically, there are some bands and acts who feel the need to cultivate a persona or act a certain way… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or… — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
“It is an ajtys—a singing-duel. The boy and girl stand in the eye of the village carrying on a mocking well-I-sort-of-like-you-even-if-there’s-one-or-two-weird-things-about-you-for-instance—kind of… — Thomas Pynchon 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
I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
My brother was a drummer, and he was always, like, smashing the kit around when I was a kid, and my dad… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
Not many people come out of a big band as the lead singer/songwriter and making a record, and all of a sudden… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected… — Amy Argetsinger Copy Share Image
My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
The Knobs started out as a project to do between Heartbreakers tours. I met the guys very organically, and I didnt really… — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
The act of the being in the band has very little in common with writing songs. The songs come out of it,… — Tim Kinsella Copy Share Image
Jim had melodies as well as words. He didn't know how to play a chord on any instrument, but he had melodies… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
During our first year, we were playing Priest and Maiden cover tunes all the time while we figured out what we wanted… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the… — Joe King Copy Share Image
Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning… — James 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
We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Selling a band predicated on nothing is always an interesting proposition, and of course, the fact of the matter is that I… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
“Unless the South Beach techno-dance clubs outbid them. They don’t have live bands, just DJs up in a booth. And the DJs… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
It's like an electroacoustic, surround-sound cello gamba. It embodies everything that fascinates me the most - acoustics, playing instruments, digital processing, movement… — Hildur Gudnadottir Copy Share Image
Restaurants remind me of bands: there's lots of camaraderie, people work very closely together, very hard, and it's a bad job to… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
