Quotes About Instrument

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

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?'

Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.

I've always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It's the ultimate instrument, there's this whole level of virtuosity and poetry, a sort of athleticism, of controlling your voice.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is just the instrument I happen to play.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

I had this instrument that I built in high school. It was a huge, six-foot-long stringed instrument, and I started playing with that amplified and singing through power electronic stuff. I played those shows, and it would blow the lid off of everybody, and everybody would flip out.

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

I want to enjoy the magic of the instrument which is my body.

I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

My body is an instrument for me to use.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.