When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
“The church, although lapsing more and more into deflection from the truth and into a corrupting of apostolic practice, had not instrumental… — John Girardeau Copy Share Image
I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
On 'Love Letters' I focused exclusively on sung music, creating a collection of songs that directly address heartbreak and its ensuing emotions… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
If you read about a tree, and there is a description, you have to grow that tree in your mind. So that's… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music. — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
I really hope that with my album, because I have a bit more of a mainstream crossover following, I really hope that… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
I was playing in a band and was approached to score an independent film. I had never done it, but had written… — Douglas Pipes Copy Share Image
I'm not a sports fan, but I remember watching highlights with post-rock guitar instrumental music over these slow-motion shots of football players.… — Brian Reitzell Copy Share Image
Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture,… — Laurel Halo Copy Share Image
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more,… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both. — Flume Copy Share Image
“Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anything else in the circumstances.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing… — Ali Akbar Khan Copy Share Image
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that… — Stuart Hamm Copy Share Image
