Quotes About Instruments

If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today.

I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.

I have a Baldwin in my L.A. apartment, a Steinway in my New York apartment, and a Kawai plexiglass grand piano in storage for shows. I still play for two or three hours every day.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

the WRIMTMS (weather, radios, instruments, minimums, time, missed approach procedure, and stuff) pre-landing briefing begins with weather. It's just that important.

Remember, your relationships have not been designed by God as vehicles for human happiness, but as instruments of redemption.

I come from an old school of thought where there are musicians on stage, in the house, sitting and jamming to create things. I cannot make music without live instruments. It just doesn't feel right.

Every continent on Earth has a form of bullroarer - it's the oldest instrument known to man.

Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.

The Sama Veda of India contains the world's earliest writings on musical science. The

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor along with

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

the most heroic symphony is a judicious combination of puffing, plucking, scraping, and beating.

What a strange instrument a tuba is. I wonder how many different shapes they twisted that metal into until they realized that a tuba's shape was the exact one they needed to make that exact sound.

If the war had proved anything it was that life had unexpected resistance to the instruments with which men had been issued. Simonson