“Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.” WorldPlayerInstrumentsChineseGiftedFangsWorld Famous Author:Guy Gavriel Kay
“So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.” PlayUsedPlayerListeningEarsInstrumentsJazzBassBass Players Author:Miroslav Vitous
“What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.” PeopleWayMeanHardPlayCertainPlayerDrawsInstrumentsGuitarVansGuitar PlayerCopyingVan Halen Author:Tom Morello
“English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.” PeopleIfsHeartSpeakVoiceAnswersAudiencePlayerTerribleLaborEnglandInstrumentsCrowdsStrikesWitIronySpeakersApprovalUp And DownPitsGalleryRippleDissonanceLabor MovementCaustic Author:Mary Heaton Vorse
“The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.” PlayerWindInstrumentsChiefsObjectionsWind Instruments Author:George Bernard Shaw
“I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.” PlayerTheoryBuiltInstrumentsGuitarGuitar Player Author:Hunter Hayes
“Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.” WorldLifeLooksBodyLightTogetherJoyNightPlayerTeamMissingBrotherWallMembersPicksMadnessInstrumentsDearAlbumsProductionsStudiosDecadesCoreBelovedHeatWorking TogetherSoloThunderTouringJohnsonBassThumbsJoy Of LifeLight UpMellowDebutPlatinumOff The WallBass PlayersBeloved FriendsBody Heat Author:Quincy Jones
“As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way that we can. All my actions are a fulfilment of all the African music genres - I'm only trying to maintain the culture and the tradition. I am a musician.” WayGivingTryingLightActionCultureDarkPlayerDutyMusicianTraditionInstrumentsGenreReach OutFulfilmentAfrican Music Author:Sizzla
“You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have” WayEndsTermPlayerInstrumentsYawning Author:John McLaughlin
“I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.” LittlesBodySongPlayerInstrumentsGuitarPiano Author:PJ Harvey
“I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.” Has BeensPlayKnownPlayerInstrumentsViolinBlenders Author:Itzhak Perlman
“I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.” ThinkingKindDifferentRealShowsNaturalPlayerWasteTraditionInstrumentsJazzDifferent KindsExtensionsImprovisationComposingPredeterminedDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Richard Grossman
“My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.” Growing UpGrowingPlayerDadBandInstrumentsMusicalMy DadBassLatinoBasementsMusical InstrumentsBass Players Author:Lindi Ortega
“As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing.” LooksPlayerRocksInstrumentsJazzRhythmTypicalMonkeysIntriguingCanon Author:Glenn Kotche
“As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward and it's all linear.” WayMovingNextRealizingPlayerInstrumentsStructureNotesMoving ForwardMelodyChordsLinearIntervalsNavigateVertical Author:David Sanborn
“Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones.” PeopleWayFeelsFirstsWellsLongHardPlayWantedPlayerLong TimeInstrumentsExpressiveSaxophoneTenors Author:Art Pepper
“I never experimented with the hoddu like I wanted to do. Like on the song "Allah Addu," the hoddu and the voice is something that belongs to West African culture. When you go to the north of Mali, in the past it was just the singer and one instrument player. We never really did have that on our CDs. On some other songs, like "Laare Yoo," we have a whole section of hoddu, something like four of them playing together.” WholeWantedTogetherPastSongCultureVoiceFourPlayerInstrumentsWestSingersSectionsCdsAfrican CultureMaliPlaying Together Author:Baaba Maal
“I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.” DreamAgeSchoolCareersStudyPlayerLessonsBandSixHigh SchoolInstrumentsGuitarTeenagerPianoSessionClassical MusicAcademyKeyboardsViennaPiano LessonAfter High SchoolLife After High SchoolTangerines Author:Paul Haslinger
“It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.” SpiritualPlayerStageBecomingInstrumentsElevationBecoming One Author:Matt Nathanson
“You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.” IfsPartyFiveFourPlayerInstrumentsGuitarShoesStringsBassBass PlayersBass Guitar Author:Keith Morris
“When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.” StillsPlayerInstrumentsSoloFrameworkPlaying MusicAcousticsConceptual Framework Author:Z'EV
“I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.” MadeHardStuffSoundPlayerNeededInstrumentsComplexesBunchPlasticSteelSurplusSynthesizers Author:Z'EV
“When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage. It takes on this incredible feeling of levitating and the molecules spin differently in the moment.” PlayMomentsFeelingsSpiritualHealingPlayerStageBecomingPerformancesInstrumentsIncrediblesHeatMoleculesElevationBecoming One Author:Matt Nathanson
“I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is: They are bringing to me their performance skills and their unusual instruments, which I'm relishing. They're really beautiful. The other thing is improvisation - these players improvise and they do it very beautifully, as a matter of fact.” WayMatterFactsBeautifulPlayerParticularSkillsPerformancesInstrumentsVarietyUnusualImprovisationMatter Of FactVery BeautifulReally Beautiful Author:Pauline Oliveros
“Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.” WorldMadeGuySoundTalkingPlayerCryDevilInstrumentsGuitarMade ItSoloGuitar PlayerHendrixAmplifiers Author:Bruno Mars
“I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.” WritingFilmSongPlayerProduceTvsBandInstrumentsGuitarBonesSongwritersTouringSixteenComposingGuitar PlayerLeading MeDemos Author:Danny Jacob
“Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.” BigsPlayerFansInstrumentsGuitarDamnBeing In LoveGuitar PlayerGamerPlaying Guitar Author:Steve Vai
“Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.” ArtStillsHelpingPlayerConnectionsInstrumentsGuitarConnectedSatisfiedThis DayGuitar Player Author:Steve Vai
“Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.” PlayerChangedBirdInstrumentsPianoMemorableBassTrumpetsSaxophoneBrassArmstrongTrombone Author:Cootie Williams
“Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that sounded good when played it ... and he cared nothing about the collectibility of an instrument ... his philosophy was "A good player can make any guitar sound good" ... to Michael, a guitar was just a tool.” PhilosophyCareWantedSoundMusicPlayerToolsInstrumentsGuitarCollectorsAntithesisGuitar Sound Author:Nick Gravenites
“Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau.” PeopleIfsThinkingMusicPlayerGeniusMusicianMusic IsInstrumentsGuitarTastyTrue Genius Author:Chet Atkins
“But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.” IfsPlayerEmotionalColorExpressionHugeInstrumentsJazzRangePianoDynamicsEmotional Expression Author:Gary Burton