Instrumental Quote by Richard Carpenter

Interestingly enough Miles Davis was an influence, and the way he approached harmonics. And one of my biggest influences was Dionne Warwick, early Dionne…

— Philip Bailey

There are a lot of singers, but they weren't doing it the way I was, taking an Adele song and putting a hip hop…

— William Singe

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to…

— Mel Torme

My dad gave me the 'Introducing Dionne Warwick' album when I was, like, 14. It was the first time I'd heard Burt Bacharach's songwriting…

— Natalie Prass

In my own career, I used to do a Sinatra medley in every show, or at least sing one of his songs.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

— Christopher Cross

Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when…

— Van Morrison

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over…

— Boz Scaggs

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

— Prince

My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had two or…

— George Thorogood

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

— Dr. Dre