Quotes About Instrument

The violin sings.

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing like the violin, you know, like a voice.

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

I was leaving my violin out of a lot of songs, and that's a strange thing to do because I've been playing the violin since I was 2. It's a part of me. Adding pedals and sounds is great because I get to play the instrument I feel most comfortable on and the one I feel gives my truest expression when I'm making a solo or anything like that.

In the studio, I don't use an amp, I just go direct into the desk. It's virtually acoustic, what I'm doing.

Playing a musical instrument gives much pleasure, but more so to the musician.

I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.

The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.

The Word of God gives wounded Christian the victory. God renews his hope with His own promises, and Christian gives the Destroyer a deadly thrust resulting in a mortal wound to the enemy of the pilgrim's soul. Christian on his own could not defeat Apollyon. The sword of the Word of God is the only instrument that can accomplish such a task. 4.

No puedes ser el instrumento del cambio si no experimentas ese cambio por ti mismo.

The music came through clearly. The new instrument had a much purer tone, she thought, than the old one. She decided that tone was most important and that she could conceal the cabinet behind a sofa. But as soon as she had made her peace with the radio, the interference began.

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design but destiny.

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

Perhaps Kane has a better grasp of the importance of the intellectual life in the Christian faith than many of us do. Perhaps she has read enough Scripture to know that the church was meant to be and has often been the instrument of reason in society.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.