In 'Battlestar Galactica,' at the beginning of my career, I explored middle Eastern and Japanese percussion that got pulled into the score. — Bear McCreary 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
I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a… — Danny Elfman 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
I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly. — Suzy Bogguss 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
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
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer. — Pharoah Sanders 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
Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell… — Neil MacGregor 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
Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks… — Steve Lawson Copy Share Image
I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body… — Shalom Harlow 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
Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on… — Jan Perry Copy Share Image
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is… — Karel Capek 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
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
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
Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of… — Flora Purim Copy Share Image
