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Quotes About Instrumental

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
~ Joanna Newsom
The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.
~ John Zorn
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
~ Branford Marsalis
When Christian teaching fails to connect beauty to the blessing of creation, an alternative account of beauty may develop. In some cases, beauty is appropriated and affirmed as a tool for witness to the gospel. The mistake here is subtle: rather than celebrating beauty as an aspect of the blessing of creation and thus an essential part of the good news of creation and its redemption, beauty becomes merely instrumental to Christian witness.
~ Jonathan R. Wilson
I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
~ Najib Razak
I can't bring myself to release an instrumental album because I feel like I want some meat on the bone. Something to chew on, lyrically and content-wise.
~ Phil Elverum
I've been doing instrumental records now for a long time and built up this little fan base, which is worldwide, and it's incredible how big it's gotten. People really enjoy these records.
~ John 5
Millennials' tech and global savvy will make them instrumental in shaping our mobile future worldwide.
~ Brad D. Smith
Sigur Rós's Samskeyti
~ Barry Eisler
Quite apart from the instrumental benefits of choice—that it enables people to get what they want—and the expressive benefits of choice—that it enables people to say who they are—choice enables people to be actively and effectively engaged in the world, with profound psychological benefits.
~ Barry Schwartz
I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.
~ Flume
But the term code-script is, of course, too narrow. The chromosome structures are at the same time instrumental in bringing about the development they foreshadow. They are law-code and executive power – or, to use another simile, they are architect's plan and builder's craft – in one.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
~ Leo Kottke
Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.
~ Paul Gilbert
I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements. Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that the greenhouse effect is already large enough to begin to effect the probability of extreme events such as summer heat waves.
~ Bill McKibben
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.
~ Alan Moore
I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.
~ Future
In other words, imperialism was instrumental not only in making the revolution a practical inevitability, but also in creating favourable conditions for a direct assault on the citadels of capitalism.
~ Joseph Stalin
Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.
~ Grandmaster Flash
With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
~ Yanni
Internships are so instrumental, but not only do you need to get them, you need to work at them.
~ Brad Goreski
I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.
~ Bruce Nordstrom
As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.
~ Trombone Shorty
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
~ Andy Summers