Top 71 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Instrumentalists - Page 2

I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

You feel the camaraderie that you're all driving around in vans, you know, engaged in musical enterprise. It's pretty much the same for everybody except for the 40 minutes that you're on the stage. Other than that, I do feel like we're off on our own path. It's sort of exciting.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.

All this world is but a play... be thou the joyful player.

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. But everybody in Grizzly Bear is full of ideas. So it's kind of boring to come to the band with a complete song and be like: "Here's what I want you to do." With this record, we wanted to make everything feel like everyone - music that we could never do on our own. That's a real gift, and it's one of the best things about being in a band like this.

I felt like the last record was a real step forward for us. I was very pleased to see some people saying the same things - that it was a real departure, that it was much more individual, that it sort of a power of its own. I really did feel those things very strongly, it's our most realized record.

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs.

It may be a product of me being raised in episcopal church, but I have a love for ritual and theater and the significance of doing the exact same thing over and over. So I really love knowing every little thing I'm going to do during a show.