Ideas Quote by David Tudor

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

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a…

— Luc Ferrari

We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.

— Grace Chatto

Voice is the first instrument.

— Sixto Rodriguez

When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make…

— Bobby Womack

“The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.”

— Deke Sharon

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

— T-Pain

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

— Dayananda Saraswati

Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of…

— MC Yogi

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to…

— Gerry Mulligan

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

— Peter Jackson

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