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Musical Instrument Quotes

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

The music sounded crazy. Crazyas if Blake had never known how to create a coherent song on a musical instrument.
Maybe this Livia thing has finally broken him. A soul like Blake's can't make it in this world.
- Debra Anastasia

In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize.
- Thomas Aquinas

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.
- Johannes Sebastian Bach

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

Think of those fingers as abilities. A creative person may write, paint, sculpt, or think up math formulae;
he or she might dance or sing or play a musical instrument. Those are the fingers, but creativity is the hand that gives them life.
& just as all hands are basically the same - form follows function - all creative people are the same once you get down to the place where the fingers join.
- Stephen King

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
- Madonna Ciccone

..All the shops have been smashed open. There was a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?"
"Yeah" said Rincewind "..Luters I expect
- Terry Pratchett

Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentrationstudying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancingare associated with a lower risk for dementia. Dancing, which requires learning new moves, is both physically and mentally challenging and requires much concentration. Less intense activities, such as bowling, babysitting, and golfing, are not associated with a reduced incidence of Alzheimer's. (254)
- Norman Doidge

The Harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.
- Bob Dylan

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

Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad's snare drum from the house, Henry's guitar from his car, Adam's spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad's songs, Adam's songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.
- Gayle Forman

I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had been like, fluttering next to someone's ear and whispering into it. How the whole earth was like a musical instrument that we could play effortlessly.
...I could not fly. My sister was not there. My heart was broken.
- Carolyn Turgeon

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

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

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.
- Lynn Johnston

A brick could be used as a musical instrument. But it would take someone as deaf as Beethoven to enjoy it.
- Jarod Kintz

Am I the only guy that holds a flute of champagne like it's a musical instrument?
- Jarod Kintz

The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.
- C S Lewis

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.
- Yoyo Ma

Apart from Tony Iommi who I'd never seen again since leaving school I didn't even know anyone who could play a musical instrument. So, instead, I decided to grow my hair long and get some tattoos. At least I'd look the part.
The hair was easy. The tattoos stung like a f**king bastard.
- Ozzy Osbourne

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.
- Orhan Pamuk

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

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

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

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.
- Alan Watts

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