The characteristic sounds of a trumpet, oboe, banjo…

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

— Publilius Syrus

There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on…

— Fred Armisen

I actually do sing sometimes.

— Morten Harket

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward

As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

— Thomas Beecham

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the…

— Lewis Mumford

When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best.

— Irene Cara

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

— Matisyahu

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

— Steve Lacy

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

— Alison Moyet

The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a…

— Phoebe Robinson

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against…

— Nils Frahm

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Anatoly Chubais