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  • 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.

    Music   Keys   Play  
  • The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

    Heart   Mean   Thinking  
    "'Masada Songbook': Zorn Redefines Jewish Music". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. November 13, 2005.
  • It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.

  • Instrumental music can spread the international language.

    Music   Jazz   Language  
    Twitter post from Oct 18, 2017
  • Where words fail, music speaks.

    Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”
  • If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

    Music   Art   Reality  
    Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
  • I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.

    Lying   Writing   Rocks  
  • Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

    "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.
  • I really love the fact that instrumental music can have you do your own inner-movies or your own visuals to the sound. There's not lyrics dictating what you should feel.

    Sound   Facts   Should  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

    "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.
  • I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.

    Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
  • You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.

    Rocks   Important   Looks  
  • The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

  • I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female.

    Sex   Singing   Males  
    Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.99
  • After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

    Song   Nice   Opportunity  
  • I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

    Music   Wisdom   Art  
  • I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

    Long   Language   Speak  
    "Carlos Santana: 'My daughter beat me at Guitar Hero'" by Peter Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2012.
  • Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

  • The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

  • When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

  • Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

  • Music is the universal language of mankind.

    1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).
  • Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

  • I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

    "Rosanne Cash Lists Influences, Including Famous Father’s, in New Memoir". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2010.
  • The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

    Essence   Able   Tone  
  • Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.

    Memorable   Guitar   Play  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.

    Art   Drama   Discovery  
  • If music be the food of love, play on.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
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