Quotes About Instrument

The elf nodded. From her saddlebow, she took a lute, a marvelous instrument of light, tastefully inlaid wood with a slender, engraved neck. Without a word, she handed the lute to Dandilion. The poet accepted the instrument and smiled. Also without a word, but his eyes said a great deal. "Farewell

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

I was Adonai's instrument, His Nazarite, His son, and in Him I placed my trust. I would tell Delilah as much . . . if Adonai allowed me to see her again.

To put it opinionatedly, strumming an acoustic guitar is akin to scratching on the surface of a drum: antithetical to its nature.

Don't be silly, Lillian," I said, waving my hand. "If she can play any kind of instrument, I want her. Just no accordions.

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.

Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

I did buy an electric guitar while shooting 'Split.'

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline as it is a vocal. But it is a single, linear, monophonic thing. Something you could hum or whistle.

My main electric guitar belonged to Clarence White, the great guitarist for the Byrds.

My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

The guitar l learned on was probably worth $4 or something, but it was priceless to me. It meant so much.

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.

'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.