Instrument Quotes

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail. - Charlie Parker

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know. - Evelyn Glennie

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem. - Clyde Tombaugh

You see such progress with them. They start without even knowing the name of an instrument and in a year or two they're sitting in an orchestra. Elementary music is the most fun and most rewarding. - Larry Newman

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz. - Oscar Peterson

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use. - Steve Lacy

You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night. - Slash

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. - Tony Blair

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that. - Mel Tillis