Angry Quote by John Coltrane

It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.

— Chris Young

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what…

— Tommy Bolin

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different…

— Dimebag Darrell

I never really know what I'm playing. I just follow what sounds good in my head and keep going.

— Daniel Powter

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign…

— Dick Dale

Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and re-do it.

— Steve Lukather

I tend to get sounds that sound a little bit wrecked.

— Gordon Raphael

I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.

— Alicia Keys

I found my sound through exploring. I was in the studio yelling, going low, trying things, and that's how I found that I have…

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going…

— Bela Fleck

One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a…

— Craig Finn

It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is…

— Ginger Baker