Instrument Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

“Asking to hold a musician’s instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man’s wife.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is…

— Alex Kapranos

When you learn to play, you just hold the guitar differently. You can tell when someone's just never held an instrument.

— Monica Barbaro

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

— Neil Young

“Take notes, boys! The ladies always love a man who can play an instrument!” Lindsay snorted, “Your instrument doesn’t even like girls, Rusty!” “Doesn’t…

— Cora Carmack

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.

— Robin Pecknold

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want…

— Ornette Coleman

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

— Robert Fripp

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or…

— Miles Davis

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

— Marlo Morgan

There's a kind of intimacy that can happen between musicians, and if they're people you enjoy and respect as humans, that intimacy is a…

— Sunny Ozell

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their…

— Brian Eno