Instruments Quotes
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I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.
David Toop
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The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.
Cecilia Bartoli
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To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it takes years to start working with it, that's first, and it looks like everybody else is moving on the instrument but you. Then when you find a cat that's really playing, you always find that he's been playing a long time, you can't get around it.
Wes Montgomery
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Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
Richard Thompson
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Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
Ernest Mandel
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Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
Gail Pool
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare
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The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.
Thomas Kuhn
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When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.
Stefon Harris
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All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.
Mother Teresa
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The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz