Quotes About Performance

People love to hear a guy who is really good on his instrument. They love to watch him go.

My favorite instrument is a bemrimbau. I play that every night.

As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I love doing instrumental records; I love doing that.

We always used to describe ourselves as an instrumental band. Basically, the music was always instrumentally based, so the songs always came later.

As a guitar player, playing instrumental music is a blast.

If I doubt whether a track works, I'm just going to play the instrumental version in my set and judge where the crowd takes it.

I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it has to be listened to, played by the instruments, and then heard by the director, but most importantly, it has to be listened to by the public.

People don't come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.

If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it's still best to do it in a studio.

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

I want to show people all of me, because that's what I haven't been doing. To be able to play so many instruments, and no one's ever seen me play, it seems like someone who's bluffing.

I play a bunch of instruments.

I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.

There was one incident where we couldn't hear ourselves, so we were singing in an entirely different key than the instruments. It gets so loud at a Jonas Brothers concert!

I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.

We write our own songs, play our own instruments.

I just want to improve as an actor, and I am also fond of dancing and learning musical instruments.

We've always had a very strong focus on the instrumentation, and our approach to our individual instruments.