Art Quote by Derek Trucks

You hear it in the great musicians, whether it's a drummer or a horn player or a guitar player - you hear them take…

— Derek Trucks

We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that…

— Lisa Gerrard

I tend to think about so many different things on a recording. I'll be trying to tune into what the drummer's doing, trying to…

— Adam Granduciel

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.

— Richard Ford

I know when something is going to work for me, and I feel when it's not, so I am going to carry that into…

— Brynn Cartelli

I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it…

— Nick Cave

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition,…

— Arjuna Ardagh

For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's…

— Jose James

I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio…

— Ringo Starr

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of…

— Ken Burns

Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in…

— Luigi Russolo

We can judge the pulse of a song and match it with our listeners' sensibilities. I think we do this extremely well, and it…

— Bhushan Kumar