Deep Quote by Joe Perry

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

— Kenny G

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's…

— Ray Brown

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them.…

— John McLaughlin

I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something as audacious…

— Glenn Kotche

For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns…

— Grandmaster Flash

Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.

— Jack White

As modern-day professionals it all comes down to how you perform on the pitch.

— Danny Ings

Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much…

— Richard Dawson

Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think…

— John Petrucci

Every time you go in to make a record with the same group of musicians, the communication gets better and better. You've got that…

— Passenger

It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting the beat…

— Eminem

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for…

— Pete Townshend