Quotes About Instrumentalists

#1. Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

Beth Anderson

#2. The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.

Frank Sinatra

#3. I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I've heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.

Ralph McTell

#4. There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.

Zubin Mehta

#5. Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#6. When I arrived in America at the end of 1967, my only purpose was to observe (for a couple of months) my idols, which were mostly instrumentalists. I wanted to play jazz, not sing it.

Flora Purim

#7. They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.

Cindy Cashdollar

#8. Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Aristotle.

#9. Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Brian Eno

#10. As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

Boz Scaggs

#11. Damn it! I knew she was a monster! John! Amy! Listen! Guard your buttholes.

David Wong

#12. That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a piece there to make our personalities for ourselves instead of putting up with what was given at the beginning.

Seymour Krim

#13. Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

Walter Lippmann

#14. I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.

Adan Canto

#15. I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

Kaki King

#16. I'm frustrated. I just don't know what you want from me.

Cora Carmack

#17. Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

#18. Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt