#instrument

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything! ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#does #everything #instrument #little #man

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#ceiling #comes #i #instrument #into

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#done #forget #getting #i #i think

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #effort #even #finding #framing

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#come #consider #early #i #i can

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#each #i #instrumentalist #string #try

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#count #hand #hits #i #i can

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#computer-generated #divorced #down #guy #instrument

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#even #instruments #late #more #most

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#face #instrument #man #playing #whenever