Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

— Anatoly Chubais

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

— Steve Lacy

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's…

— Gary Burton

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

— Sigmund Freud

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play…

— Madonna Ciccone

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am…

— Beverly Cleary

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

— Anonymous

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

— Rodney Yee

“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

— Janet Malcolm

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may…

— David Rittenhouse

We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but does the…

— David Finckel

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any…

— Thomas Sangster

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things:…

— Greg Iles

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller