Ability Quote by Colin Marston

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

— Jeff Ament

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

— Bill Bruford

I love the string band. I love the sound of it, the possibilities of it, I love the physical sensation of creating and performing…

— Chris Thile

The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can…

— Terry Riley

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

— Andres Segovia

Being in a band with three guitar players, one thing you need to do is learn to make each guitar voice sound separate and…

— Don Felder

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

— Rick Danko

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two…

— Michael Davis

It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is…

— Richard Dyer

I've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together to make…

— Travis Barker

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

— Les Baxter

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very…

— Elliott Carter