A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Wilson

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Henry Wilson

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

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
David Byrne

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
Richard Thompson

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
Elliott Carter

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.
Dave Edmunds

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
Ted Lange

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
Mick Fleetwood

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.
Kevin Richardson

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
Dweezil Zappa

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
Ferdinand Lassalle

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
David Del Tredici

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
Tina Weymouth

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
Walter Kohn

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
Lionel Hampton

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.
Albert Claude

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
Anna Lindh

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
Lenny Kravitz