Instrumental Quotes

I actually have a lot of couples coming and telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance. (Shreya Ghoshal)
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise. View quote
Leo Kottke
Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record. View quote
Michael W. Smith
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil. View quote
James Madison
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. View quote
Vladimir Kramnik
When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong. View quote
Joe Satriani
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior. View quote
Sarah Grimké
Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for instrumental thinking. But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost. View quote
Stephen Holmes
To support the people we care about is intrinsic, it is not instrumental. It's not something we do because we're hoping to get some other outcome. View quote
Alison Gopnik
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. View quote
Tony Iommi
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. (Mose Allison)
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside. View quote
Ali Akbar Khan
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. View quote
Andy Summers
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years. View quote
Chuck Mangione
I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up. View quote
Colin Hanks
I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education. View quote
David Cook
The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone. View quote
Ed Royce
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. View quote
George Crumb
Instrumental music can spread the international language. View quote
Herb Alpert
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment. View quote
Leo Kottke
The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second. (Michael Johnson)
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure. View quote
Stanley Clarke
I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album. View quote
Tom Curren
Osama bin Laden's welcome death has ignited debate over whether the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used on enemy prisoners were instrumental in locating bin Laden, and whether they are a justifiable means for gathering intelligence. Much of this debate is a definitional one: whether any or all of these methods constitute torture. I believe some of them do, especially waterboarding, which is a mock execution and thus an exquisite form of torture. As such, they are prohibited by American laws and values, and I oppose them. ... Mistreatment of enemy prisoners endangers our own troops, who might someday be held captive. While some enemies, and al-Qaeda surely, will never be bound by the principle of reciprocity, we should have concern for those Americans captured by more conventional enemies, if not in this war then in the next. View quote
John McCain
That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in va. View quote
Thomas Jefferson