Best Instrumental Sayings
107 Instrumental quotes by 100 unique authors
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Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
— David Sanborn
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I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.
— David Cook
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The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
— George Crumb
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I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm…
— Kanye West
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I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
— Colin Hanks
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My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues…
— Tony Iommi
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Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have…
— Russell Crowe
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I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my legacy would be…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of…
— Kenny G
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Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the…
— Kenny G
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
— James F. Cooper
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'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing…
— Chris Cornell
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I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people,…
— Rita Dove
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I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.
— Ric Flair
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I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want…
— Herbie Hancock
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In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in…
— Vladimir Kramnik
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In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who…
— Dennis Kucinich
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I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.
— Hugh Laurie
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The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
— Franz Liszt
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
— Paul McCartney
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Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched…
— Alan Moore
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes…
— Carlos Santana
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Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
— Clara Schumann
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Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
— Michael W. Smith
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