When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
Back in the Eighties, I used to write ballads on my acoustic guitar, so it seems very natural to me to go… — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you. — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
For about three years I was playing clubs and theatres, I had a band, and I made a recording a few years… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I was in the Boy Scouts. The scoutmaster of our troop was in a band that… — Eddie Rabbitt Copy Share Image
The only reason I do anything is that I just love writing songs. If I write songs, I feel good about it… — Ryan Jarman Copy Share Image
Marching band today isn't your grandmother or grandfather's marching band where the band walked out onto the field, stopped and played a… — John Mashburn Copy Share Image
To maintain a consistency when people come to see the band takes a lot of work; it takes a lot of discipline.… — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
When Derek Miller and I started working together, we had a very clear vision for the sound of the band. It was… — Alexis Krauss Copy Share Image
I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking… — Matt Cameron Copy Share Image
I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor. — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence. — Jerry Cantrell Copy Share Image
I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one. — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
Whether it's Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments. — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
We are just a rock and pop band, that's what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
I learned to play instruments and I've been in bands since I was 13, but I wanted to be an artist and… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
“By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we… — Eicca Toppinen Copy Share Image
We wanted to create the kind of band of whom I'd be jealous if we went and saw them. We dug deep… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty. — Max Roach Copy Share Image
That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child! — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
Singing has opened so many doors for me. And that's definitely a true passion of mine. It's a natural, God-given gift. — V. Bozeman Copy Share Image
I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a… — Kim Deal Copy Share Image
I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
