Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.
If some things aren't going well, do something; never wait for the things to be ok by themselves! Do something; change the direction, change the parameters, change the criteria, change anything you wish to change! To change is to create a new destiny! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies; change is your instrument to switch from one destiny to another! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies!
If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Why do we even make guns? I'm not against gun control. I'm against guns, period. I'm against anything at all that is used as an instrument of death. Why would we manufacture such a thing? Why would we have a business that does it? Why don't we figure out a way to disarm ourselves totally?
My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.
I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
The banjo am the instrument for me.
Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. . . . You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.
A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.