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Quotes About Instrument

A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul.
~ Manuel Velazquez
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
~ John Coltrane
Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.
~ Marion Woodman
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
~ Charlie Parker
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
~ Bob Hope
If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.
~ Future
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
~ Yusef Lateef
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
~ Andres Segovia
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
~ Cecil Taylor
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.
~ Yngwie Malmsteen
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
~ Oscar Peterson
A good player can make any guitar sound good.
~ Mike Bloomfield
For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
~ Jerry Garcia
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
~ John French Sloan
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
~ Plato
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
~ Andres Segovia
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
~ Barbara Sher
I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on
~ Nathan East
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.
~ Max Roach
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
~ Jay London
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
~ Gerald Massey
I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.
~ Iggy Pop
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
~ Michael Storm
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
~ Tommy Bolin