#instrumental

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#been #bottled #crew #gone #hasn

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media. ↗

— David Sanborn

#instrumental #just #marginalized #media #music

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#any #clearly #english #goes #i

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#instrumentality #phenomenology #science #scientism #experience

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. ↗

— Mose Allison

#concerned #essentials #far #i #improvisation

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#beauty #begins #both #cannot #chess

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. ↗

— George Crumb

#development #idioms #instrumental #music #new

They didn't know anything about the candidates and things of that sort. So they needed guidance. And that league was very instrumental in directing the people in the direction to go. ↗

— Charles Phillips

#anything #candidates #directing #direction #go

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. ↗

— Andy Summers

#i #i think #instrumental #like #play

I musn't run away. ↗

— Hideaki Anno

#depression #fear #instrumentality #life #shinji-ikari