Been Quote by Andrew Bird

I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff.

— Max Cavalera

I'm a flutist so I know what they can deliver in terms of texture and sound and blurriness and softness. It's a very soft…

— Alexandre Desplat

I actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's only about…

— Stephin Merritt

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

— William Christopher Handy

I love the tone of old, non-amplified, real acoustic fiddles, and Wood Violins are the closest thing I have found to that sound. They…

— Martie Maguire

As a guitar player, I've been influenced by dance music - it was Crystal Method and The Prodigy back in the day. I would…

— Tom Morello

I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound,…

— Kevin Olusola

I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.

— Nick Mason

I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

— Kathleen Hanna

I think that I make chords when I paint, so I think you would be listening to the cello. It's deep, and it's resonant.…

— Sean Scully

“In the hands of someone who does not appreciate or understand music, the instrument is just a lump of wood, but in the hands…

— Jason Luke

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their…

— Brian Eno