Musical Instrument Quotes

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

Worship is more than singing beautiful songs in church on a Sunday.

It is more than instruments and music. As a true worshipper, your heart will long to worship Him at all times, in all ways and with all your life.

And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance.

We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it.

That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.

Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly.

"An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Music is the medium for expressing emotion.

Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love.

All the world seemed bright and changed.

Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted.

They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.