#instruments

So you’re trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she’s unhappy in the first place is you,” said Simon. “That seems contradictory, doesn’t it?” “Love is a contradiction,” said Jace. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mortal-instruments #simon-lewis #love

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. ↗

— David Byrne

#cars #commodity #down #i #i do

By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin. ↗

— Jasper Rees

#age

Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!! ↗

— Caroline Corr

#band #because #classical #different #instruments

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#composers #instruments #love #musical #orchestras

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#endowed #feeling #frequently #instruments #many

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#becomes #cheating #compromise #everything #instruments

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once. ↗

— Brian Eno

#body #different #different parts #dimensions #good

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#instruments #involved #more #musician #often

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. ↗

— George Washington

#avoid #desire #instruments #insult #known