Instruments Quotes
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The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
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The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.
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We play the instruments we love.
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... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from
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What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.
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Сommon sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
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The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
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The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
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Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
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There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.
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I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think regular touring has forced me to play the guitar more than anything else, which is why I'm probably most confident playing that. And whist I'd be lost if I couldn't play it too, I dislike the totemic worship of the thing... magazines, collectors, and so on. I enjoy struggling with instruments I can't really play.
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If you add real, live instruments, then it takes you into different realms of sorts and it doesn't sound so electronic all the way through.
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The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
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Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.
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Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
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Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.
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The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.
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I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
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Lots of kids when they get their first instrument hammer away at it but they don't realise there are so many levels of dynamics with a guitar. You can play one note on a guitar and it really gets to people if it is the right note in the right place played by the right person.
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There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.
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When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.
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I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.
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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
