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Music Instrument Quotes & Sayings

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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument ... — Isabel Allende

Our soul is an instrument of music if we choose to play it with love! — Sima Mittal

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time. — Joseph Campbell

The harp is an insipid instrument
no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud. — Mason Cooley

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff. — Nikki Jean

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music. — Rene Auberjonois

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art. — Lauryn Hill

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. — Plato

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body. — Juliet Marillier

How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument? - Zarost — Greg Hamerton

Music gives inspiration ... one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas. — Michael Bassey Johnson

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. — Miroslav Vitous

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward. — Alber Elbaz

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. — John Cage

The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe). — Jasper Rees

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument. — Abbie Cornish

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. — Alan Kay

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. — Michala Petri

Where, My Lord, is music bred - upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man. — Karen Blixen

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar, — Brandy Clark

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel. — Yngwie Malmsteen

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years. — Feist

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. — Yusef Lateef

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician. — Ryan Phillippe

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. — Aimee Mann

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

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. — Bill Kreutzmann

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall. — Joe Zawinul

As for music, where does it go? The only concrete thing in music is the instrument. — Clarice Lispector

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! — Maria Augusta Von Trapp

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument? — Nigel Kennedy

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were. — John McLaughlin

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. — Jay London

I don't think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music. — Keith Moon

Sex is the instrument and love the music ... — Isabel Allende

First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play. — Charlie Parker

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. — Johann Sebastian Bach

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. — Yanni

Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal. — Rob Schwimmer

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education. — Plato

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form. — John French Sloan

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument. — Ben Okri

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. — Sappho

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass. — Billy Sheehan

I must play the instrument I've got. — Saul Bellow

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational. — Pedro Reyes

Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. — Peter James West

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums. — Lykke Li

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out. — Marco Beltrami

Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from — John C. Wright

Mistasinon stood as the music of life flowed around him, the instrument of his agency muted. — F.D. Lee

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play. — Charlie Parker

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play. — Karen DeCrow

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me. — Abbey Lincoln

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

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps. — Cassandra Clare

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument. — Victor Wooten

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school. — Don Cornelius

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

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. — Kenneth R. Miller

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it. — Son Lux

The guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive — Les Paul

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music. — T-Pain

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on — Nathan East

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years. — Jill Sobule

The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference. — Deke Sharon