Instruments Quote by Steve Vai Download Open image “The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.” — Steve Vai ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instruments Miserable Music making Only time Time Tunes
I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it. — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable. — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
It's rare for me to sit in a room with my guitar and feel like I can't stop playing, because it just sounds so… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing. — Nastassja Kinski Copy Share Image
I get a kick out of just working, making people happy - whether it be in the movies or just playing my guitar. — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well. — Mikal Cronin Copy Share Image
I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made. — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical.… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff. — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today,… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
There's very notable dynamics in all of the collaborations I've done. It's hard to say if one is more important than the other, but… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that.… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image