I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.
Eric San

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
Rosemary Clooney

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
Ornette Coleman

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.
Mick Taylor

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
Stan Getz

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
Andy Summers

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
Eberhard Weber

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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 this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.
Bill Frisell

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
Manfred von Richthofen

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
Alma Gluck

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
Robert Gould Shaw

In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.
Gerhard Schroder

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
Giorgio Moroder

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
Omar Bongo

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
Robert Dale Owen

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
Billy Sheehan

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.
Johannes Sebastian Bach