Top 1200 Musical Instruments Quotes & Sayings

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

I'm always thinking 'how can I blend something?' whether it's musical instruments, voices, or the people around me.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.

I just want to improve as an actor, and I am also fond of dancing and learning musical instruments.

Growing up in the Libya of the 1970s, I remember the prevalence of local bands who were as much influenced by Arabic musical traditions as by the Rolling Stones or the Beatles. But the project of 'Arabisation' soon got to them, too, and western musical instruments were declared forbidden as 'instruments of imperialism.'

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.

My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.

All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one.

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

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.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may not be different, but in performing with it, it was a necessity to build it if I was going to perform and make scores with it. By making the instruments, it helped me compose the way I want.

Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any instruments.

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

There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes and rhythms interlock. Then comes the technical side like programming, instruments and designing instruments. Next is production and mixing and beyond that I start to care less.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time.

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

Playing with my sister - we always had musical instruments lying around the house.

As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.

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.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

I enjoy roles that involve a task outside of my natural capabilities - for example, playing a number of musical instruments or sword fighting or cutting a suit. You have to look as though you can do it, without too much editing.

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 can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers' counting is different - they only go to eight beats, which doesn't relate to a bar.

I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to stay locked in that mentality.

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse. Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.

Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.

I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music.

In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can look principally in two places. One is weapons and the other is musical instruments. My hypothesis is that instruments are usually ahead of weapons. In fact, I think you can find many examples of instruments being predecessors of weapons and very few in the reverse.

At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend and he was making instruments, Paul Burwell and I were making instruments, Evan Parker was making instruments, and we knew Hugh Davies, who was a real pioneer of these amplified instruments.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

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

My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.

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

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.

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

My father set a strict regimen for me. He insisted that I learn to play many musical instruments before I choose one.

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.

Different musical instruments provide for different music.