The people who really got me off were dealing with the…

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of…

— Billy Gibbons

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time…

— Stephen Sondheim

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

— Don Cornelius

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

— Novalis

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

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

— Janet Malcolm

“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

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

— Rodney Yee

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

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