You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument…

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

— Italo Calvino

It can and will be a more powerful sound but the orchestra has far more potential for expressive power. When I hear a great…

— Glenn Branca

I thought there couldn't be a better backdrop for some kind of powerful music than a big orchestra. My wish to hear how a…

— Jeff Beck

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

— Chick Corea

I use all types of instruments, really depending on the film. Instrument choices are very much tied to lighting, colors, art direction, as well…

— Douglas Pipes

When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I…

— Emilia Fox

I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops.…

— Tom Waits

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in…

— Quincy Jones

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

— Howard Shore

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

— Howard Shore

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of…

— Howard Shore

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

— Anonymous

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Steve Lacy

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

— Anatoly Chubais