Quotes About Music

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.

If I had to pick a favorite band of all time, it would be Rush.

I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

Depending on how I'm feeling that day or the music I'm listening to, I will pick appropriate lighting to help create the atmosphere for me. I use a lot of blues and purples.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.

I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.