Instrumental Quotes

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.
Hillary Clinton

Peace, Between, Last

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik

Beauty, Game, Everything

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
Paul McCartney

Love, Humor, Sense

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.
Hugh Laurie

Water, Gone, Tequila

I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.
Ric Flair

Enough, Shows, Series

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
Carlos Santana

Music, Time, Long

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
Linus Torvalds

Good, Successful, Fact

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
Franz Liszt

Music, Character, Real

Instrumental music can spread the international language.
Herb Alpert

Music, Language, Spread

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.
Kenny G

Music, School, Nothing

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
James F. Cooper

Different, America, Social

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
Clara Schumann

Art, Longer, Treasures

They didn't know anything about the candidates and things of that sort. So they needed guidance. And that league was very instrumental in directing the people in the direction to go.
Charles Phillips

Direction, Guidance, Needed

In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.
Dennis Kucinich

Person, Create, Jobs

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
Michael W. Smith

Power, Looking, Carry

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
Kenny G

Great, Hope, Words

The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
Ed Royce

Done, Lives, Stay

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
Leo Kottke

Yourself, Writing, Sense

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
Leo Kottke

Great, Yourself, Give

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.
Chuck Mangione

Last, Hand, Number

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
Colin Hanks

Music, Time, Growing

I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
John Hughes

Music, Listen, Jazz

The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do.
Chad Smith

Music, Real, Serious

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison

Far, Concerned, Jazz

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
Joanna Newsom

Songs, Recording

In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption.
Jerry Costello

Energy, Clean, Helping

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
Andy Summers

Rock, Play, Guitar

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
George Crumb

Music, Remarkable, Recent

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.
Jim Sullivan

Remember, Ask, Couple

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.
Michael Weatherly

Work, Through, Away

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