When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both. — Flume Copy Share Image
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music. — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that… — Stuart Hamm Copy Share Image
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language.… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture,… — Laurel Halo Copy Share Image
“Instrumental music was only tolerated, on account of the times and of the people. But in gospel times, we must not have… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible… — Flea Copy Share Image
Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
That's one of the hardest parts of putting together an album - finding that concept, that unifying idea. Especially as I write… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
On 'Love Letters', I focused exclusively on songs with lyrics, creating a collection of songs that directly address heartbreak and its ensuing… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with… — Phil Keaggy Copy Share Image
“The church, although lapsing more and more into deflection from the truth and into a corrupting of apostolic practice, had not instrumental… — John Girardeau Copy Share Image
I think my music being referred to as "cinematic" has a lot to do with people just not being used to listening… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
I was playing in a band and was approached to score an independent film. I had never done it, but had written… — Douglas Pipes Copy Share Image
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more,… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
If you read about a tree, and there is a description, you have to grow that tree in your mind. So that's… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
“Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anything else in the circumstances.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I really hope that with my album, because I have a bit more of a mainstream crossover following, I really hope that… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental… — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious. — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz. — John Hughes Copy Share Image
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing… — Ali Akbar Khan Copy Share Image
I really love the fact that instrumental music can have you do your own inner-movies or your own visuals to the sound.… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
I'm not a sports fan, but I remember watching highlights with post-rock guitar instrumental music over these slow-motion shots of football players.… — Brian Reitzell Copy Share Image
