Always Quote by Marty Stuart

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

— David Sanborn

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

— Steve Lacy

I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

— Walter Piston

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

— Yanni

When we were in the studio working stuff out, and even when we were on stage, the music was a priority.

— Michael Anthony

The instrumental pieces are compositions, certainly, although that's not the language that I instinctively use. They're not scored, and arrangements are often arrived at…

— David Grubbs

Sometimes the simplest forms of music are the hardest to play. Especially for musicians that are accomplished.

— J. J. Cale

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in…

— Richard Wagner

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

— Victor Wooten

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start…

— Andrew Bird

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

— Walter Piston

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

— Igor Levit