Zitat des Tages über Instrument:
Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.
I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach myself how to shave with a straight razor. I had to find the weirdest things just to increase my understanding of other cultures or other arts or intellectual pursuits.
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.
Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is - a combination of world-weariness and exuberance, an instrument that he's mastered for specific comic shadings.
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.
Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
