It's easy to get people to sing along to cover songs, but when it's your song, it's the coolest.
I come from a creative background, and everything I enjoy is entertaining or playing music for people, which is the exact thing the Community restricts and opposes. At least still playing games with the kids and being active, not completely awful.
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.
The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
I always considered myself a performer. It's what God gave me. It doesn't matter if one person hears it or a million.
I've been making music since age five.
I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.
My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.
I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
I'm a struggling guitar player.
I started performing in musical events after the success of 'Victory' and fans demanded the song 'Khaali Quarter' in every show.
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
I'm not a huge big fan of music video.
When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
There's a couple of fills on the 'Head Job' album. The title track sounds huge, I love it, and there's a few fills in there.
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.
We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.
We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live.
I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.
I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life. As soon as I formed my first band, we played Jimmy Reed stuff. So it wasn't like I was a white kid who was learning the blues from B.B. King records.
Nobody learns a German aria overnight, except Jared Harris.
