Quotes of: Musical-instrument Keyword

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Bobby McFerrin

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Jerrold Nadler

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Antoine Lavoisier

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

Teddy Thompson

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

Terri Windling

You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you're too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle-earth. So what's your style? Three chords, cranked o...

Born to Rock

Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to ear...

The Book of Lost Things

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ev...

The Sky is Everywhere

Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very...

Yoko Ono

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. ...

Sonny's Blues

One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and your favorite actors, singers, YouTube sensations- are fallible. Adults don't know all, and what they do know, they often w...

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

Chuck D

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

Jesse Eisenberg

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

John Frusciante

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

Katey Sagal

Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

Moby

I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

...you play the instrument you have.

The Compass Rose

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

Mick Jagger

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

Pat Metheny

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

Ted Lange