#instrument

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

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All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. ↗

— David Byrne

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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

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Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? ↗

— Alva Myrdal

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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing. ↗

— Gary Numan

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I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. ↗

— Evan Parker

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In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it. ↗

— Robert Gould Shaw

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Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments. ↗

— Benny Goodman

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