Shamir quote: "I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it... I could only do little riffs and whatever."

You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my...
CHARLIE WORSHAM

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song ...
DANIEL SMITH

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
PAGE MCCONNELL

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot...
STEVIE NICKS

We had about 30 songs. I picked some I thought my mom would really like and some I liked. We went in...
ALAN JACKSON

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song...
COREY TAYLOR

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't ...
EDDIE VEDDER

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the dru...
DARON MALAKIAN

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my ...
CAMILA CABELLO

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got...
KIP WINGER

When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I...
CHRIS CORNELL

A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like...
DARLENE LOVE

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-h...
DICK DALE

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
KATE MICUCCI

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe...
BONNIE MCKEE

I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my...
KEHLANI

Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that ...
D'ANGELO

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started ...
MIRANDA COSGROVE

I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if...
COLIN HAY

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
JOHN FOGERTY

The songs on my first album were such that I started really high and by the time we reached the chor...
JANJI VINCE

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
MARC ALMOND

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production,...
ELVIS PRESLEY

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based ...
IAN ANDERSON

I was chubby in high school. I used to go to my information technology class, and I would type reall...
TOBIAS JESSO, JR.

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't...
LOUIS TOMLINSON

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That...
JEFF LYNNE

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J MASCIS

Well, I would sit on the bed with my guitar, write these really personal songs, and then take them a...
STEPHAN JENKINS

He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir...
JOSH TURNER

For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we cou...
BEN GIBBARD

Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the s...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I ma...
JENNY LEWIS

I only do private room karaoke where it's just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom alwa...
CHELSEA PERETTI

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin...
DAVID BOWIE

I had an amazing feeling when i finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in ho...
MOBY

It was like trying to eat one potato chip. I've picked up the mandolin and feel like I can go to any...
EILEEN MCLANE

Whenever i have too much on my mind, i just put my earphones in my ear and i listen to music.. Music...
OLASOT

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&...
BILLY CORGAN

I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let&...
EDDIE VAN HALEN

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I ...
BRENDAN GLEESON

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would ...
J. TILLMAN

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.
NICK CAVE

We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We...
AVRIL LAVIGNE

My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the ...
AARON NEVILLE

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He ...
PAUL SIMON

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my gran...
CALEB LANDRY JONES

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN

[The zoo offers the tactile experience of sliding a bow across the strings of a fiddle, plucking a s...
CONNIE ALLEN

I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] re...
ANDREW BIRD

My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best ...
KATIE FINNERAN

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one,...
CHRIS ISAAK

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and pl...
LES PAUL

My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life...
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON

Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea...
STEPHEN MARLEY

I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do l...
ANDRAE CROUCH

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, w...
LUDACRIS

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely th...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

I wrote all these heavy, tuned-down guitar riffs and I asked him if he wanted to play the guitar sol...
CHAD KROEGER

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with...
JAMES BAY

At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggre...
YANDEL

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha...
CHRIS ISAAK

In my home, I listen to music; I play music: I play guitar and I play ukelele. And I swim and I ride...
CHARLES DANCE

My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was ...
K. FLAY

I held her in my hands and screamed. My kids were screaming in the bedroom. I called 911, and I didn...
GOLAM MAOLA

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, wr...
LUDACRIS

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid....
XAVIER RUDD

I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am...
CHARLI XCX

I think string instruments in general were something I felt an affinity for. I liked the bass. I was...
DAVE HOLLAND

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much ...
ART ALEXAKIS

I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic g...
DAMON ALBARN

One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player f...
TREVOR DONOVAN

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they...
JOHNNY RAMONE

Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heart...
JULIANA HATFIELD

We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I di...
LIL' ROMEO

My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone...
LALAINE

This kind of situation is something most people don't expect, ... I know I didn't expect it back whe...
DEL MCCOURY

I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each ot...
RANDY BACHMAN

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look giganti...
FERNANDO BOTERO

There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take ...
CHUCK BERRY

I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my hous...
RILEY SMITH

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ear...
BRITNEY SPEARS

For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that...
BRAD PAISLEY

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to ke...
RICHARD MARX

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.
DAVID EDWARDS

I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I...
JOSH TURNER

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guita...
EDDIE MURPHY

I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only t...
CHARLIE WORSHAM

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the re...
VINCE GILL

Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever woul...
COLE SWINDELL

In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't...
KINA GRANNIS

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely,...
MELISSA ETHERIDGE

I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar.
DUSTIN LYNCH

I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it... I could only do little riffs and whatever.

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