My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my… — Dascha Polanco Copy Share Image
Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how to play (though yes, I do know how to play the keys), but… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar,… — Kat Dennings Copy Share Image
Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument.… — David Garrett Copy Share Image
I have had the view that cutting wages is not the path to prosperity, and one of the great myths propagated about… — John Howard Copy Share Image
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Ive got three brothers and a sister; everybody played an instrument. When I was at Manchester United and I broke my leg… — Dion Dublin Copy Share Image
I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic. — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
“The distinguishing mark of man is the hand , the instrument with which he does all his mischief.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to… — John Mayall Copy Share Image
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“Will you teach me something?" I was about to say no, the viola really wasn’t the instrument to start learning with, but… — Jules Wake Copy Share Image
Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me. — Billy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on. — GRiZ Copy Share Image
I'm a flutist so I know what they can deliver in terms of texture and sound and blurriness and softness. It's a… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox… — Chino Moreno Copy Share Image
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Being a little kid, I'd sit at whatever instrument, and I always preffered making stuff up as opposed to learning other people's… — Alex G Copy Share Image
“First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.” — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
“The nerve-system of many an Urning is the finest and the most complicated musical instrument in the service of the interior personality… — Otto de Joux Copy Share Image
I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
“Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean.… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
