Top 313 Instrumental Quotes & Sayings

I can never forget my first film - it was instrumental in me becoming an actor.

The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.

Sport's been an instrumental thing in my life.

I think video games have been instrumental to me as an NBA player.

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.

I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.

Rumble is the best instrumental ever.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

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

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?

Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature.

As a guitar player, playing instrumental music is a blast.

Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.

Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

Bob Rondeau - he'll never know this - but he was so instrumental. He is a legend to me and had a major impact in my life.

It's hard to get a start as an instrumental guitar player. It's a much quicker route to be in a band, so I was always in a band and writing songs with singers, but I always had the dream in the back of my mind to make an instrumental record.

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 playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do.

It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.

Sometimes I'll be in an elevator and I'll hear a corny instrumental version of 'Light My Fire.'

I actually have a lot of couples coming & telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance.

As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.

The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

The music I wrote as a kid already was always instrumental. It was never based on lyrics.

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

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.

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

On the song 'Buried Alive,' it's almost like the instrumental is a therapist.

People of Maharashtra are close to my heart, and this is where I became who I am, and this has been instrumental in my formative years.