Quotes About Instruments

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose.

There was always a guitar hanging around the house when I was a kid. It was a much lower impact instrument than me playing the drums, which is what I really wanted to do. My mother put a stop to the drumming.

The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.

Most of my instruments are handmade.

Beck is obviously a consummate musician. He plays instruments, many instruments. He can make his own record without having a fleet of computer operators onboard.

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.

I love music with real instruments. I'm not one of those guys that's a purist about analog vs. digital, but I love the analog approach. Sonically, I connect to that.

If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it's still best to do it in a studio.

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.

Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff.

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.