Everything Quote by Thurl Ravenscroft

We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play…

— Lamont Dozier

We always used to describe ourselves as an instrumental band. Basically, the music was always instrumentally based, so the songs always came later.

— Ian Gillan

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off,…

— Kim Gordon

I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music.

— Tom Petty

See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and…

— Butch Trucks

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a…

— Joshua Redman

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't…

— Terry Gross

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands…

— Reed Mullin

Music has as many roles as people make it.

— Ani DiFranco

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people…

— Dave Barry

For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being…

— Bill Frisell