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• I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments – guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

  Imogen Heap

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• Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music’s really all I’ve ever done.

  Hunter Hayes

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• I don’t let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.

  Jane Seymour

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• My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.

  Dan Hicks

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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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• As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

  Boz Scaggs

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• I write on all instruments.

  Billy Sherwood

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• Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

  Pat Metheny

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• The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don’t have much point in the orchestra.

  Gerry Mulligan

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• In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

  Ravi Shankar

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• I’m not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I’m too rough on instruments.

  Tommy Shaw

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• 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

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• The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It’s got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

  Steve Lacy

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• A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

  Colin Wilson

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• Rock is about finding who you are. You don’t necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

  Gene Simmons

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• Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

  Gavin Bryars

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• You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that’s healthy and indeed even creative. But it’s where – it’s really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

  Tony Blair

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• At the time, I didn’t know that bass would not be enough for me. I’m not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.

  Eberhard Weber

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• In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn’t bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

  Eberhard Weber

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• I don’t want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

  Edgard Varese

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