Luka Sulic Quotes

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to... not beat on it, but there is more work involved than a Hammond. With a Hammond, you just lay your hands on the keys, man, and you're gone.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.

A guitar is so tactile, and when you're playing bends - and bending notes is a big part of my style - there are so many notes within the note you're bending from and the note you're bending up to.

Piano feels soft. Violins and all different string instruments feel soft. Guitar, even electric guitar before you start adding distortion, that you can play soft.

What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm but also very cold.

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

The louder I sang, the more it brought out the basic quality of the voice.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.