Instruments Quotes

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan

Point, Except, Orchestra

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time.
Gerry Mulligan

Time, Understand, Talk

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
Sean Lennon

Help, Two, Guitar

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

Perfect, After, Wanted

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
Joanna Newsom

Good, Down, Voice

I write on all instruments.
Billy Sherwood

In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy.
James Chanos

Remember, State, Party

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

Everything, Cheating, Compromise

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
Peabo Bryson

Food, Mean, Chain

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.
Cass Sunstein

Pride, Themselves, Lawyers

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
Gavin Bryars

Another, Transition, Similarly

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.
William Henry Ashley

War, Common, Guns

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.
Jeff Tweedy

Time, Long, Musical

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.
Mel Tillis

Family, Mother, Play

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
K. Eric Drexler

Best, Today, Stupid

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.
John Bonham

Great, Play, Ideas

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
Neville Marriner

Late, Beethoven, Require

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
Evan Parker

Voice, Perfectly, Adequately

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

Act, Players, Scenario

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
Elliott Carter

Different, Through, Made

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
Luc Ferrari

Life, Spring, Longer

Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.
Alessandro Nivola

Music, Done, Play

So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument.
Aleksander Kwasniewski

Problems, Difficult, Face

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.
Robert Moog

House, Building, Build

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
Robert Moog

Since, Kid, Building

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.
Robert Moog

Time, Experience, Building

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.
Robert Moog

Work, Walk, Fail

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
Billy Sheehan

Music, Different, Tried

We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.
Billy Sheehan

Music, Again, While

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

Moment, Universe, Vision

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