My first memory of playing music was when I was 3 years old in Puerto Rico. I played percussion on a tin… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it,… — Sunny Murray Copy Share Image
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm… — Bob Beamon Copy Share Image
Mad World's distinctive percussion intro was played on a Roland CR-78 drum machine. We first recorded it at twice the speed, but… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the… — Questlove Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Im a studio musician. You get me in the studio I can play an accordion. 4 bars and loop it back. Percussion… — Akon Copy Share Image
I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very… — Ronaldinho Copy Share Image
Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play… — Charles Petzold 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
When I heard We Are the World do a techno version of one of my songs, I didn't know the word techno,… — Linda Perhacs Copy Share Image
When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The musical mystery is: How do you marry tuned percussion and voice? On a metaphorical level, everything that's really important - like… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
I studied percussion as a music student, and I didn't have the best of timing, so I could never make it as… — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion. — Les Baxter Copy Share Image
Through Russ, though not his muscles but the percussion he provides with me as a guide — Gorillaz Copy Share Image
Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal. — Carlos Carvalhal Copy Share Image
There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
That was a very natural process because as I was creating the animatic I added music clips as reference of the kind… — Alex Abreu 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
I think the cornerstone for my impetus for doing arrangements for people is because I want to be an enabler. That is… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
