Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.
A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
The ukulele is the instrument of peace.
Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that, in future national emergencies, He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.
The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.
God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.
As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing.
To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.
I can strip down basic principles of certain things and apply it to everything else. And that keeps you interested, changing the art form, making it more avant-garde. Because I can't play any instruments.
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit.
Whether you are out in the world, or you're at home, you are simply an instrument of God's love in your universe.