If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?
A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.
I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
Music was a big part of my family with gatherings, picnics, barbecues.
Very few guitarists play nylon-string. They don't know how to get the sound out of them. That's something I've spent a lot of time on.
We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.
I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.
I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.
My father was a cocky, long-haired musician, a songwriter.
From the first album I'm playing bass on a lot of the tunes, and piano on a lot of 'em, and drums, and guitars. I did that on almost every album.
I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.
I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.
And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.
I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.
In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.
I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.
I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
