Music Instrument Quotes
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Music Instrument Quotes & Sayings
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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument ...
— Isabel Allende
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
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
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
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
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
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
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
— John French Sloan
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
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
I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on
— Nathan East