“How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost” — Greg Hamerton Copy Share Image
I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument. — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain. — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing!… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I was given this music programme called Cubase, one of the first multi-layering programmes, when I was seven, and I graduated to… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until… — Kathryn Hulme Copy Share Image
You know, the ukulele itself is not a very loud instrument, all right? And, you know, compared to like a trumpet, right?… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me. — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
You go with what you 'get,' and I get playing the guitar. It's a challenge because it's not an easy instrument to… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
“That's because the guitar is speaking to you, bringing your senses alive. Music is an age-old language. It speaks to everyone, young… — Josephine Cox Copy Share Image
“And wise Uncle Venner, passing slowly from the ruinous porch, seemed to hear a strain of music, and fancied that sweet Alice… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going… — Michelle Ryan Copy Share Image
I had a ukulele when I was much younger. I have no idea what happened to it but I think that was… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
“Why, masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i’ the nose thus? FIRST MUSICIAN How, sir, how! CLOWN Are… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you are on the street and someone attacks you. If you feel that you must fight back to defend yourself,… — Deepak Malhotra Copy Share Image
I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium… — Bob Brozman Copy Share Image
... by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough… — Tal Farlow Copy Share Image
For me, the tabletop is an easy way to eliminate the possibilities of chords, modes, melodies, and harmonies. It kind of confines… — Kevin Drumm Copy Share Image
