Instrument Quotations | Page 4

The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

He has a reputation of always surrounding himself with world-class musicians. Even if you don't play piano, no matter what instrument you play, there will be a bunch of world-class musicians on stage.

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.