From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places… — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see.… — Brody Armstrong Copy Share Image
I started playing drums in multiple bands, then became a wedding drummer while studying drums in college, and after became a touring… — G Flip Copy Share Image
My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. I write in words. I… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it… — David Guetta Copy Share Image
What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way… — Jon Bellion Copy Share Image
On stage, I have my three band mates and my guitar in front of me, and mic stand and that's like your… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Dawes is a rock 'n' roll band playing guitars, writing songs, working in a certain tradition. Through our attitude and personality, I… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
“High school marching band was its own little microcosm of the world. More a study in sociology than in woodwinds and brass:… — Leah Konen Copy Share Image
I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
I remember standing outside a youth club and listening to some soul music, and hearing the basslines. This was before I'd started… — Cliff Williams Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the… — Alvin Curran Copy Share Image
My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
The Bassbone is just what I have been looking for... I can maintain the integrity of two instruments on stage or in… — Nathan East Copy Share Image
A drummer's playing with all their limbs, you're playing polyrhythms with each part of your body. Every part of the drumkit is… — G Flip Copy Share Image
'Frayed Ends Of Sanity' off the 'Justice' album is a song that I really wanted to play with the band, and for… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around… — Katy B Copy Share Image
When we started out in the U.K., there were songs that we made, we put them on the Internet, and we immediately… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in 'Unconditional Love,' it was just singing for singing's… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
My start came with experimental musicians and live bands. I never played with DJ's because it wasn't really the correct fit. It… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Learning a musical instrument is challenging, it demands fine motor skills and coordination. It develops children's listening, thinking skills, imagination and perseverance.… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I remember in the days when we started, when we first went on the road, we went to Berkeley and played with… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
I feel if I'm playing an athlete, I know I have to prepare. I need to get that body language right, I… — Shraddha Srinath Copy Share Image
A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then… — Avicii Copy Share Image
There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes… — Squarepusher Copy Share Image
I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to… — Avicii Copy Share Image
The guitar is a funny instrument because you have bendable strings and distortion - there's a potential for noise. It is more… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's… — Keith Flint Copy Share Image
