Midge Ure Quotes

Rachmaninov's hands were big. My hands are small. But only hands small.

A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have to do it in tune.

I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes.

My friends like to remind me that I have relatively weak fingers. Aerobic strength and general endurance have come easy, but finger strength has always been my biggest weakness.

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.

As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

I keep saying if I ever get a good amount of quiet time that I want to learn to play cello. It's a very warm instrument. The tone of the cello and the movement - I don't know what is; I love it so much.

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

I can hear the youthfulness of my playing on, say, 'Hold The Line.'

I like bringing keyboards and stuff on stage.

Any time you sit out, it could throw off your rhythm a little bit, and I'm kind of a rhythm player.

I studied voice and piano fairly seriously during my elementary and high school days, and as such, I became very attuned to rhythm and cadence and voice.

The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.