Top 1200 Musical Instrument Quotes & Sayings

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

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

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!

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

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.

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

I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical instrument, I use only a hint of the instrument, but the brocaded pattern is like a line of Bach because of its order and the leaves going up are like passages from Vivaldi, and the emphasis on drapery is where the sound comes.

The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.

You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.

I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

A lot of my musical education was done simply by listening. If you really want to excel on your instrument, it's almost impossible to not develop and analyze what you see and hear and to incorporate all of it into your own playing.

You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.

I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

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

I had an edge in 'Andhadhun' because, being a musician, I knew how to play a guitar, so it was not difficult for me to learn a musical instrument.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.

I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

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.

The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.

Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.

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 text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or amplification, sometimes with not even a single musical instrument.

How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent, and within 30 seconds you could tell whether they were good or not, but with acting you have to give them the right part.

The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.

My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.