The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went… — Sean Combs Copy Share Image
I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character… — Johnathon Schaech Copy Share Image
You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
“When I got back to my billet I found my farmer at table with his wife and niece. “Tell me,” I said… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over,… — TheBakaViolinist Copy Share Image
I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
The electric guitar's a pretty cheesy thing when you think about it, still working on those bits of wire and magnets for… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a… — Charles Munch Copy Share Image
My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just… — B.o.B Copy Share Image
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra… — Leon Theremin Copy Share Image
With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well… — Justin Guarini Copy Share Image
Roots' was the first album on which I recorded a berimbau. After that, I recorded it a bunch for Soulfly and other… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I just always wanted to play guitar. I though that was, like, really dope. And then in high school, I learned how… — Cuco Copy Share Image
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes,… — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant.… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted… — Natalie MacMaster Copy Share Image
When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
