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LANGHORNE SLIM I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.
DAVE PIRNER If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
DAISY BERKOWITZ I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-s...
ELLE KING I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own ...
LEON BRIDGES My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would...
JAMIE XX The last record was what I would sound like if I played in a rock band - and I don?t. So I wanted to...
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It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN![]()
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER![]()
When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Reddin...
NEIL PEART![]()
If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how...
EDDIE VAN HALEN![]()
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER![]()
I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It...
SCOTT WEILAND All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. An...
GUY CLARK If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rh...
TAJ MAHAL Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha...
IAN MCLAGAN The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because be...
JANE WIEDLIN I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.
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When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, ...
TODD RUNDGREN![]()
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s...
MICHAEL J. FOX I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robin...
CHET FAKER Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle.
GREEN DAY![]()
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like J...
BUZZ OSBORNE![]()
The best slide solo I ever played was on... what's her name? That girl singer who used to be wit...
GEORGE HARRISON I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hu...
ROBIN ZANDER Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and peopl...
PERCY SLEDGE It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
IAN WILLIAMS![]()
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied...
MOBY Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with...
DONALD DUNN Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who cla...
BILLIE ARMSTRONG![]()
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who cla...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ ...
TOM VERLAINE I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I pl...
THOMAS RHETT I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music...
ZEDD![]()
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take th...
TROMBONE SHORTY I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I ma...
SPENCER ABRAHAM![]()
I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and ...
STEVE VAI In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a...
ANDREW DOST I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al...
BILLY BRAGG When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehous...
JACK ANTONOFF Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were on...
CHRISSIE HYNDE We're a punk band, not so much from a sound perspective, but I still feel like we maintain a punk ap...
AARON WARREN![]()
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic ...
DAVID GILMOUR![]()
My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like t...
DWIGHT YOAKAM I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what ...
B.O.B![]()
I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as...
GEORGE HARRISON I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness lik...
WILLIAM MANCHESTER I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I ...
TARON EGERTON![]()
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a ...
GARY OLDMAN![]()
I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a co...
JON PARDI I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was...
D'ANGELO My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
HOZIER Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for th...
ADAM SCHLESINGER![]()
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what i...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG![]()
When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: G...
DOLLY PARTON![]()
My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into...
JIMMY PAGE![]()
We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.
JOEL MADDEN While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influ...
ROLAND GIFT![]()
Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after di...
WILL.I.AM![]()
I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno...
POST MALONE![]()
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the...
MEGAN FOX Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
BENJAMIN BOOKER Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't fe...
BILL KREUTZMANN I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signin...
SIMON COWELL I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the ...
TIESTO![]()
People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' ...
BRITTANY HOWARD If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can...
NED VIZZINI![]()
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like...
DARLENE LOVE When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's s...
ELLIOTT YAMIN There's no place for Depeche Mode and the Sisters of Mercy in the music I make with my band. If ...
ANDY BIERSACK![]()
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drumme...
EWAN MCGREGOR![]()
My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie's where it's just worn ou...
DIERKS BENTLEY It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like,...
GLENN DANZIG![]()
When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the ...
ROBERT SMITH![]()
I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already s...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musi...
STEVE JONES![]()
I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an a...
BOBBY VINTON If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop ...
ANDY SUMMERS Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music befor...
MAC DEMARCO![]()
I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college,...
J. D. SOUTHER The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT![]()
I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so...
CHARLIE ROWE I can't help who I am. I'm just doing what I feel like I should do in my heart. If I was wal...
EVE![]()
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him mo...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
ADAM JONES We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest....
NATE RUESS If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just ...
HANS ZIMMER When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-fl...
FEIST When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first gra...
DICKEY BETTS![]()
To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a gre...
DIMEBAG DARRELL A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar ...
BARRY MANN![]()
These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual t...
ANI DIFRANCO![]()
Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11...
BRITTANY HOWARD I just wondered what it would feel like to kill Grandma.
EDMUND EMIL KEMPER III
LANGHORNE SLIM I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.
DAVE PIRNER If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
DAISY BERKOWITZ I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-s...
ELLE KING I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own ...
LEON BRIDGES My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would...
JAMIE XX The last record was what I would sound like if I played in a rock band - and I don?t. So I wanted to...
GLEN PHILLIPS
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER
When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Reddin... NEIL PEART
If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how... EDDIE VAN HALEN
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER
I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It... SCOTT WEILAND All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. An...
GUY CLARK If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rh...
TAJ MAHAL Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha...
IAN MCLAGAN The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because be...
JANE WIEDLIN I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.
AUSTIN BUTLER
When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, ... TODD RUNDGREN
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robin...
CHET FAKER Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle.
GREEN DAY
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like J...
BUZZ OSBORNE
The best slide solo I ever played was on... what's her name? That girl singer who used to be wit... GEORGE HARRISON I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hu...
ROBIN ZANDER Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and peopl...
PERCY SLEDGE It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
IAN WILLIAMS
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... MOBY Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with...
DONALD DUNN Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who cla...
BILLIE ARMSTRONG
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who cla... BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ ...
TOM VERLAINE I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I pl...
THOMAS RHETT I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music...
ZEDD
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take th...
TROMBONE SHORTY I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I ma...
SPENCER ABRAHAM
I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and ... STEVE VAI In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a...
ANDREW DOST I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al...
BILLY BRAGG When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehous...
JACK ANTONOFF Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were on...
CHRISSIE HYNDE We're a punk band, not so much from a sound perspective, but I still feel like we maintain a punk ap...
AARON WARREN
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic ... DAVID GILMOUR
My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like t... DWIGHT YOAKAM I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what ...
B.O.B
I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as... GEORGE HARRISON I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness lik...
WILLIAM MANCHESTER I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I ...
TARON EGERTON
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a ... GARY OLDMAN
I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a co... JON PARDI I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was...
D'ANGELO My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
HOZIER Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for th...
ADAM SCHLESINGER
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what i... BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: G... DOLLY PARTON
My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into... JIMMY PAGE
We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it. JOEL MADDEN While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influ...
ROLAND GIFT
Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after di... WILL.I.AM
I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno... POST MALONE
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the... MEGAN FOX Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
BENJAMIN BOOKER Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't fe...
BILL KREUTZMANN I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signin...
SIMON COWELL I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the ...
TIESTO
People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' ... BRITTANY HOWARD If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS...
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like... DARLENE LOVE When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's s...
ELLIOTT YAMIN There's no place for Depeche Mode and the Sisters of Mercy in the music I make with my band. If ...
ANDY BIERSACK
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear... ALFRED HITCHCOCK Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drumme...
EWAN MCGREGOR
My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie's where it's just worn ou... DIERKS BENTLEY It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like,...
GLENN DANZIG
When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the ... ROBERT SMITH
I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already s... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musi...
STEVE JONES
I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an a... BOBBY VINTON If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop ...
ANDY SUMMERS Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music befor...
MAC DEMARCO
I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college,... J. D. SOUTHER The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT
I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so... CHARLIE ROWE I can't help who I am. I'm just doing what I feel like I should do in my heart. If I was wal...
EVE
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him mo... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
ADAM JONES We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest....
NATE RUESS If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just ...
HANS ZIMMER When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-fl...
FEIST When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first gra...
DICKEY BETTS
To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a gre... DIMEBAG DARRELL A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar ...
BARRY MANN
These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual t... ANI DIFRANCO
Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11... BRITTANY HOWARD I just wondered what it would feel like to kill Grandma.
EDMUND EMIL KEMPER III
If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than C... 
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Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my v... 
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brother... 
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. 
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in li... 