Instrument Quotes - page 8

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument. (Max Roach)
Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms. View quote
Megalyn Echikunwoke
I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old. View quote
Mel Torme
I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change. View quote
Michael Vick
But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know? View quote
Mick Ralphs
But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument. View quote
Midge Ure
So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it. View quote
Miroslav Vitous
I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own. View quote
Ne-Yo
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. View quote
Oscar Peterson
There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice. View quote
Paulina Rubio
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)
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening. View quote
Roger Rosenblatt
I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across. View quote
Rosemary Clooney
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. View quote
Ruth St. Denis
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. View quote
Simone Veil
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. View quote
Slash
People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records. View quote
Sonny Bono
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body. View quote
Stan Getz
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. View quote
Stan Getz
I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry. View quote
Stanley Clarke
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance. (Steve Kazee)
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. View quote
Steve Lacy
Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly. View quote
Steve Swallow
I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me. View quote
Steve Swallow
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. View quote
Steve Vai