It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
Me and my bandmate having known each other and worked together for so long, the process between us is kind of effortless.… — Jonathan Rado Copy Share Image
We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster… — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
When I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the… — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom,… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent,… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band… — Liam Payne Copy Share Image
When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue… — Ashleigh Murray Copy Share Image
My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
“Then at last the opening music came again, with all the different instruments bunched together for each note like a hard, tight… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
My first couple shows, I figured I should be playing the guitar and singing. That felt weird, but I got good at… — Dominic Fike Copy Share Image
It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to… — Manika Copy Share Image
The best advice I got really had nothing to do with singing; it came from my brother, who always told me to… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
One thing I've always been proud of is that vicious dichotomy between the pretty controlled, angular playing of the band, and my… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
That's what bands like Pink Floyd and bands like Rush and even the Metallica of this world have, which is long, ambitious… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
People think because I'm crazy, I don't know anything. My dad played bass with Hector Lavoe, with Marc Anthony, with Ricky Martin,… — Anuel AA Copy Share Image
“Why, masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i’ the nose thus? FIRST MUSICIAN How, sir, how! CLOWN Are… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
We formed this band when we were 18-19, we couldn't play... We were just like 'Let's get together and play some cover… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of… — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
We definitely were a punk band. When we got in with our producer, Richard Gottehrer, he slowed everything down so that you… — Gina Schock Copy Share Image
I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of… — John Bush Copy Share Image
One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I really believed music was going to be a big part of my future, and that's why I took a truck driving… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot… — Rob Halford 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
I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
