Instrument Appreciation Quotes

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

We want to embrace the younger crowds and get them to embrace instruments.

I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.

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

This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument.

I love the French horn.

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

I've owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I've traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.

I have played Yamaha instruments since I was young, specifically their alto saxophones, and I have always appreciated their top-notch quality when it comes to making instruments.

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

Although I wasn't fond of the violin in the beginning, as I played on I developed a fondness which soon turned into a passion.

To put your full belief in your Guru, because it's for your own good, because you've decided that... It's just having a lot of respect for the person and it's like that with music as well...You should love your instrument and respect it.

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

I don't really collect guitars.

I keep saying if I ever get a good amount of quiet time that I want to learn to play cello. It's a very warm instrument. The tone of the cello and the movement - I don't know what is; I love it so much.