Traditional Instruments Quotes

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

Timbaland uses a lot of Indian music and that has certainly familiarised me about the music of India.

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute, no classical instruments. Maybe with the Internet opening things up, things will change.

I wanted to call it 'Experiment' because it's all kinds of different sounds. We have a bunch of instruments on there that are basically going extinct, like the fiddle, the steel guitar, the slide.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

Like, back in Albania, all my cousins sing, they play the drums, they play guitar, it's like... a thing!

At a time when club music has gone more electronic, I've gone the other way: organic and world music.

My blood is Indian. I don't need tablas in my music to prove that.

Classical music gives musicians a kick. But African music gives everyone a kick.

Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

I've got Arabic music in my blood.

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.