#instrument

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

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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. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

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After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

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Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

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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. ↗

— Colin Hanks

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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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