instruments quotes

10 quotes

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

David Byrne

Because you have things like ‚American Idol‘ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

Dave Grohl

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Harry S. Truman

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Brian Eno

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Aldous Huxley

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

Amy Winehouse

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Nikola Tesla

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Amy Winehouse