Instrument Quotes · Page 13

I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated…

— Alyson Stoner

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

— Donald Tusk

“do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can…

— William Shakespeare

“Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three…

— Abraham Verghese

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is…

— Eberhard Weber

The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without…

— Charlie Musselwhite

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of…

— Pete Seeger

I love and respect my instrument. I was born with an instinct for what is right, the correct technique, and I have…

— Mirella Freni

I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do listen. I…

— Andrae Crouch

The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures…

— Stephen Hough

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the…

— Max Ernst

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field,…

— Jennifer Egan

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say…

— Jerome Richardson

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your…

— Eddie Van Halen

Establishing a style is important, it really is, but a lot of singers get so involved with their instrument, and more so…

— Frankie Valli

“You need to use the instrument that the people desire to captivate them back to things that are right”

— Sunday Adelaja

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

— Marcello Giordani

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

— Don Cornelius

Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should…

— Paul Singer

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

— Steve Young

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

— Lykke Li

“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.”

— Pete Hamill

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do,…

— Ornette Coleman

If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't…

— David Toop

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

— Nneka

To me, I don't see any difference between a synthesizer and an acoustic instrument. It's what's done on it that counts.

— Allan Holdsworth

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

— Bill Frisell

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to…

— Rachael Yamagata

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a…

— Morton Feldman

“The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for…

— Charles-Auguste de Beriot

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

— Sigmund Freud

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the…

— Stephen Stills

I was drawn to the guitar, and still am, because it struck me as the most soulful instrument.

— Jose Feliciano

I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.

— Eric San

I don't believe in getting a lot of new gear all the time, so I get very deeply into one instrument and…

— Jon Hopkins

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice,…

— Yoko Ono

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have…

— Kevin Spacey

Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun…

— Tim Hecker

“You can remain faultless only when you constantly remain as a nimit [instrument, one of the doer and not the whole and…

— Dada Bhagwan