Quotes of: Musical-instrument Keyword

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

Avicii

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

Feist

Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play at any time, and one of those is the key-based percussion instrument.

Charles Petzold

People who seek psychotherapy for psychological, behavioral or relationship problems tend to experience a wide range of bodily complaints...The body can express emotional issues a person may have difficulty processing consciously...I believe that the...

Charlette Mikulka

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Andres Segovia

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

David Byrne

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

Ken Burns

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.

Abbie Cornish

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Peter De Vries

The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's play...

Chad Smith

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

Cassandra Peterson

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

Georgia May Jagger

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just l...

Jack White

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

T-Pain

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

Jeff Tweedy

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

Elton John

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

George Crumb

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York...

Chadwick Boseman

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

Lykke Li

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

Ravi Shankar

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

David Del Tredici