Music making Quote by John McLaughlin

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

— Berthold Auerbach

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

— Mick Jagger

When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and…

— Cass McCombs

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

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

— Kali Uchis

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

— El-P

I play by ear - I'm self-taught. And so everything I do is through that technique.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

— Quentin Tarantino

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

— Dave Grohl

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to…

— Mick Taylor

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

— Dan Auerbach

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for…

— Roger Waters