Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Setzer

,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his singing, I'd say that, all things considered, he's probably my favorite "cat" of all time

Brian Setzer

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there

Brian Jones

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

Brad Paisley

... We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ...

Brad Paisley

...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard & the Strangers), Don Rich (guitar for Buck Owens & the Buckaroos), and guys like that to push the envelope and expand on that sound... I really identify with that kind of thinking ... those guys to me are the reason why any of us do this..

Brad Paisley

... Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles ! ...

Brad Paisley

... when Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique...

Brad Paisley

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

Brad Paisley

.. Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true...

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

James Whistler

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

James Weldon Johnson

At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.

James Weldon Johnson

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

James Weldon Johnson

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Kendrick Lamar

I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

Kate Bush

I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

Kate Bush

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

Gene Simmons

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

Derek Bailey

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

Derek Bailey

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

Derek Bailey

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

Dido Armstrong

I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.

Dick Dale

...I enjoyed it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) .. in fact I'm all out...

Dick Dale

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Diana Krall

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

Diana Krall

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

Diana Krall

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Diana Krall

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

Diana Krall

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Edward Elgar

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Ed Westwick

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

Ed Sheeran

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.