Instrumental Combination Quotes

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

There's quite a few people who said they couldn't play with two drummers, and I don't understand it. It's no different than playing with two guitar players, two trumpets, or two anythings.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

My own style on the guitar grew out of my experience with the lute. I suppose some people might say I play each like the other. And of course I know a lot of guitar fans who wish I would stop playing the lute and vice versa.