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Quotes About Instrument

A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.
~ Peter Frampton
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
~ Howard Shore
Most of the time, I'll be conducting the orchestra, but there will be some pieces that I'll be playing an instrument as well, just because I love playing. There's pieces where I want to grab an instrument and play with the rest of the group, like 'The Light of the Seven,' for example; I would love to play the piano for that.
~ Ramin Djawadi
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
~ Scott Pruitt
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
~ Gerry Mulligan
But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
~ Charlie Hunter
I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.
~ Ray Stevens
When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.
~ Brian Stokes Mitchell
You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.
~ Jose Feliciano
I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.
~ Alanis Morissette
Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy.
~ Ted Dwane
Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
~ Taylor Hicks
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
~ Martha Graham
For Italy, sanctions are never an end; they are an instrument that must be overcome as soon as possible.
~ Giuseppe Conte
The gun was like his guitar: a thing that had power because of the hole in the middle. Maybe like Ingersoll, too, for that matter.
~ Unknown
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
~ Tom Waits
You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.
~ Toots Thielemans
My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
~ T-Pain
Oh, Whirlpool. Queen Coral's favorite instrument of torture,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
According to popular belief, the feebler the individual consciousness, the better equipped it is to serve as an instrument through which God can speak.
~ Paul Bowles
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
~ Paulo Coelho
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.
~ Carl Jung
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.
~ Lauryn Hill