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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

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 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 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 mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
Jackie DeShannon

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

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.
Teena Marie

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.
Jeff Ament

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.
Suzy Bogguss

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.
Suzi Quatro

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
John Otto

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

I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.
Les Baxter

My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.
Lee Ritenour

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

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