I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me. — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument. — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private. — John Nettles Copy Share Image
A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like… — Pedro Reyes Copy Share Image
I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, 'sock it away,' and unsuccessful actors, it's just, 'Just keep at it. Don't do… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
No, I don't, like, play an instrument or anything.I'm just...well, you saw me at the beginning there. I was the guy that… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife. Nonmusicians don't understand. An instrument is… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well. — Mikal Cronin Copy Share Image
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis Copy Share Image
I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing. — Nastassja Kinski Copy Share Image
The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing. — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all… — Patrick Wolf Copy Share Image
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference. — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
“A feather when viewed separately may seem like only a feather, But when seen through the eyes of truth it is a… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your… — James Blake Copy Share Image
The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics. — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
It's been really fun to see what happens to my body when I don't have an instrument attached to it. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know. — K'naan Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music.… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
“Must be some missing, though, to my way of thinking. The ones you win a war with. Have some supper?” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
