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Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. -- Charles Bukowski
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. -- Teena Marie
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. -- Suzi Quatro
Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. -- Evelyn Glennie
When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right. -- Evelyn Glennie
I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can. -- Taylor Hanson
And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that. -- Buddy Rich
Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. -- Evelyn Glennie
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album? -- Milan Kundera
I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough. -- Sunny Murray
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer. -- Bruno Mars
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion. -- Dweezil Zappa
I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night. -- Buddy Rich
When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion. -- Robert Wyatt
According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life. -- Questlove
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. -- Quincy Jones
I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine. -- Shalom Harlow
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra. -- Max Roach
The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized -- Charles Ives
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer. -- Pharoah Sanders
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos. -- Evelyn Glennie
My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds. -- Wallace Shawn
I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something as audacious as a solo percussion record with solo drumming music on it. There better be a reason behind it. -- Glenn Kotche
Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended. -- Steve Lawson
I grew up playing classical piano and percussion. -- Janina Gavankar
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in. -- Dan Aykroyd
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do. -- Janina Gavankar
I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important. -- Evelyn Glennie
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument. -- Quincy Jones
I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound. -- Danny Elfman
I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers. -- Ronaldinho
With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a lot of Hollywood-style percussion or brass, because that's the only thing that will cut through. -- Steven Price
The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to... not beat on it, but there is more work involved than a Hammond. With a Hammond, you just lay your hands on the keys, man, and you're gone. -- Gregg Allman
The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined. -- Evelyn Glennie
That's how we grew up - kinda like Pops would put his drums, his percussion and instruments into the car and we would just go to a facility in the Bay Area and he would say to us, 'You think we have it bad? There are people worse off than we are. Let's go give back to the kids.' And that's how we grew up. -- Sheila E.
I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang. -- Jeff Ament
And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion -- Leonard Cohen
I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly. -- Suzy Bogguss
A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden. -- David Mitchell
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing. -- John Otto
I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments. -- Dave Matthews
There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion. -- Paul Weller
Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play at any time, and one of those is the key-based percussion instrument. -- Charles Petzold
I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do. -- Alycia Debnam Carey
For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe. -- Neil MacGregor
I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such. -- Paul Lansky

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