Ian Frazier influenced me to an almost embarrassing degree. He was actually instrumental in getting me started in magazine writing. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz. — Jose James Copy Share Image
When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos Copy Share Image
Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record. — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The music I wrote as a kid already was always instrumental. It was never based on lyrics. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years. — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break… — Patrick Stump 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
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
As a Harvard Ph.D. economist and U.C. Irvine professor, Dr. Navarro has been instrumental in challenging the prevailing Washington orthodoxy on so-called… — Sean Spicer Copy Share Image
All my real heroes made instrumental albums. All my own career has been spent playing in bands, but I never forgot that… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
I've been doing instrumental records now for a long time and built up this little fan base, which is worldwide, and it's… — John 5 Copy Share Image
[My House By The Water] is a nice instrumental track. The sound of the water is from the same place where the… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick… — Nneka Copy Share Image
Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks… — Steve Lawson Copy Share Image
The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that although you can do something on your own, even with my solo album, 'These Grey Men,' I… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
Those three years on Loving were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music.… — Alan Moore 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
“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when… — Yuri Bezmenov Copy Share Image
![“[My House By The Water] is a nice instrumental track. The sound of the water is from the same place where the front photo was taken. I live really close to the airport, so there's also planes going over. It's kind of to remind me of living in there, because I'm not gonna be living in there for…” quote by Mac DeMarco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c63/mac-demarco-7654_airports_my-house-by-the-water-is-a-nice-instrume_900067.jpg)
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