Against Quote by Bobby Womack

I never really got there I just pretended that I had. What's the point of instruments? Words are a sawed off shotgun.

— Radiohead

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

— Ravi Shankar

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a…

— Evan Parker

I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be…

— Jack Garratt

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

— Colin Meloy

There was one incident where we couldn't hear ourselves, so we were singing in an entirely different key than the instruments. It gets so…

— Kevin Jonas

I feel like people are now praying for some authenticity and some human touch to music. There's no simpler outlet to that than guitar…

— Mura Masa

It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded…

— Ruta Sepetys

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

— Willie Dixon

There's so much fun you can have with your instruments that no one ever taught you.

— Michael Giacchino

The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people put microphones…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

— Max Roach