Quotes of: Musical-instrument Keyword

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Leo Kottke

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

Mos Def

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

Richard Thompson

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

Nicolas Cage

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

Dallas Roberts

As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

Djimon Hounsou

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Harry S Truman

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

John Adams

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

Cecilia Bartoli

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

Abe Fortas

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

Woodrow Wilson

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

Jeff Lynne

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

Evan Parker

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

Gavin Bryars

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

Catherine Deneuve

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Hale White

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

James Blunt

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

Joshua Bell