Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
Wynton Marsalis

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?
Alva Myrdal

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
Luigi Pirandello

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
F. Murray Abraham

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.
Justin Guarini

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Joshua Reynolds

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
John McLaughlin

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
Billy Higgins

You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.
Slash

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

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
Oscar Peterson

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.
Clyde Tombaugh

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
Charlie Parker