Bits Quote by Andrew Bird

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

— Michael W. Smith

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

— Glenn Branca

I really love the fact that instrumental music can have you do your own inner-movies or your own visuals to the sound. There's not…

— Trentemøller

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

— Yanni

I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff.

— Max Cavalera

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody…

— Carlos Santana

I've been doing instrumental records now for a long time and built up this little fan base, which is worldwide, and it's incredible how…

— John 5

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

— Joanna Newsom

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary…

— Franz Liszt

Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.

— Flume

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

— David Sanborn

If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.

— Marty Stuart