Quotes About Music

It wasn't until high school that I realized Avenged Sevenfold was picking up locally.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

I put together amazing records, whether that's finding the beat or putting the right hook on there, and picking the right artists on the record. That's me being an A&R. And I'm making sure that they give me their best.

When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.

Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.

It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned into a gold mine.

Indie music is picking up and artistes are more confident about putting out music with no big name attached to it.

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.