Instrument Quotes · Page 4

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

— Thomas Sydenham

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

— Bill Bruford

As an actor, your body is an instrument.

— Stacy Martin

The piano is such a timeless instrument.

— Ramin Djawadi

“I am the instrument of my own destruction.”

— Veronica Roth

Everybody is someone else's instrument.

— Michael Wolf

I must play the instrument I've got.

— Saul Bellow

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

— Logan Lerman

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

— Mick Ralphs

“P.S. We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”

— André Aciman

I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.

— David Milch

“...for we are always at one with the instrument of our magic spells.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.

— Bob Dylan

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.

— Ajay Naidu

The first instrument is not the final instrument.

— Barry Barish

Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone…

— Henry Mancini

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

— Don Henley

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

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all…

— Oscar Peterson

Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

— Cecil Taylor

“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

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

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you…

— Evelyn Glennie

There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice,…

— David Lee Roth

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that…

— Beverly Cleary

Ive got three brothers and a sister; everybody played an instrument. When I was at Manchester United and I broke my leg…

— Dion Dublin

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized…

— Greg Iles

I have had the view that cutting wages is not the path to prosperity, and one of the great myths propagated about…

— John Howard

I play a little acoustic bass and a little guitar. In our house there are instruments everywhere, and I love picking them…

— Martie Maguire

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

“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how to play (though yes, I do know how to play the keys), but…

— Lebo Grand

“It's not the instrument that makes the music beautiful - it's the musician.”

— Michael Baron

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

— Dallas Roberts

“Work is an instrument through which you carry out your life mandate”

— Sunday Adelaja

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

— Victor Wooten

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

— Elvis Costello

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

— Don DeLillo

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

— Ambrose Bierce

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

— Janet Malcolm

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

— Anais Nin