How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts
My daughters are both funny and smart and lots of fun. They play lacrosse, soccer, musical instruments, like to cook with me, and are naturals in the swimming pool. Honestly, though, what I like doing most with them is eating. I've worked really hard to make sure they are willing to try all sorts of different foods.
Alexi Zentner
I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'
Ali Smith
Playing with my sister - we always had musical instruments lying around the house.
Alissa White-Gluz
My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.
Allison Janney
I had an edge in 'Andhadhun' because, being a musician, I knew how to play a guitar, so it was not difficult for me to learn a musical instrument.
Ayushmann Khurrana
I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work - some kind of honest labor.
Bill Cobbs
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
Bjork
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
Cam Newton
If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach myself how to shave with a straight razor. I had to find the weirdest things just to increase my understanding of other cultures or other arts or intellectual pursuits.
Chris Wood
What's great about acting is that there's never a moment when you're like, 'OK, I got this, I understand this.' You're portraying life, and it's a craft that only gets better with time - kind of like playing a musical instrument: the more you get to play it, the better you are.
Cress Williams
I'm always thinking 'how can I blend something?' whether it's musical instruments, voices, or the people around me.
Daryl Davis
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
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
David Del Tredici
Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.
David Shields
The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.
Dayananda Saraswati
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
Don Cornelius
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
Ed Asner
When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.
Emilia Fox
I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
Fred Allen
I enjoy roles that involve a task outside of my natural capabilities - for example, playing a number of musical instruments or sword fighting or cutting a suit. You have to look as though you can do it, without too much editing.
Growing up in the Libya of the 1970s, I remember the prevalence of local bands who were as much influenced by Arabic musical traditions as by the Rolling Stones or the Beatles. But the project of 'Arabisation' soon got to them, too, and western musical instruments were declared forbidden as 'instruments of imperialism.'
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.
I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.
I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest in my own imagination, and so things I created, things I built were good things to be building just because I was making them, and I think that's such an important idea.
My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.
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.
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.
My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive.
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.
I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
I just want to improve as an actor, and I am also fond of dancing and learning musical instruments.
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.
My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.
How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.
I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.
I can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers' counting is different - they only go to eight beats, which doesn't relate to a bar.
I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.
