Musical instruments quotes:

Send

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument. -- Mike Figgis
I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. -- Fred Allen
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional. -- Klaus Schulze
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God. -- Ravi Shankar
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. -- David Del Tredici
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always. -- Bjork
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. -- William Christopher Handy
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
I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time. -- Jeff Tweedy
The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice. -- Dayananda Saraswati
I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid. -- Robert Moog
I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments. -- Robert Moog
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument. -- Max Roach
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. -- Robert Moog
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill. -- Cam Newton
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. -- Oscar Peterson
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously. -- Kevin James
I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments. -- John Frusciante
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. -- Hugh Laurie
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it. -- Ed Asner
All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one. -- Jeff Vandermeer
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. -- Ambrose Bierce
Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument. -- Marion Woodman
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school. -- Don Cornelius
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought. -- Helen Keller
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. -- Pablo Casals
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect. -- Tom T. Hall
PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo." -- Ambrose Bierce
Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or amplification, sometimes with not even a single musical instrument. -- Tim Hughes
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry -- Lynn Johnston
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them. -- Franz Grillparzer
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. -- Alan Watts
Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself. -- Marion Woodman
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive. -- Jaron Lanier
Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas. -- Andrew Weil
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head. -- Orhan Pamuk
Different musical instruments provide for different music. -- Amos Oz
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music. -- Elizabeth Swados
Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God. -- Shusha Guppy
Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty. -- Max Roach
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments. -- Robert Moog
From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,. -- Zhang Ziyi
I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that [reading]. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments. -- Nicholas Meyer
There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off. -- Brian Eno
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry. -- George Bernard Shaw
There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments. -- George Brecht
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement. -- Lindi Ortega
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty. -- Max Roach
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge. -- Mark Twain
Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined. -- Brigham Young
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. -- David Byrne
I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening. -- Jane Seymour
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered. -- Yo-Yo Ma

Send