Instrument Quotes
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.
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The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.
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Science is the result of and the instrument for acquiring more and more knowledge, which enable man to outgrow progressively the limitations set to the development of his mind and spirit by old ideas, ideals and notions which resulted from the primitive ignorance of humanity in its infancy.
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The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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I can do a gig without an instrument.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
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When you learn how to play an instrument, you spend a lot of your time practicing, which keeps you occupied. Music passes your time. As you're going through life, it's something to enjoy. If you can be a part of it, that's even better.
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
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Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
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I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.
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I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.
