Quotes About Instruments

For a moment or two the old man didn't reply. He was staring at the instruments with the air of one who is trying to convert Fahrenheit to centigrade in his head whilst his house is burning down.

Christmas music," said Nick, "or instruments of torture?

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to guitar and piano.

When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

I played piano, flute, and guitar.

When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

I've been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music. I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn't consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I'm a great listener to music.