„Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.“

„And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.“

—  Jonathan Tropper American writer 1970

Zdroj: This is Where I Leave You

„Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.“

—  Patrick Rothfuss, kniha The Wise Man's Fear

Zdroj: The Wise Man's Fear

„Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.“

—  Frederick II of Prussia king of Prussia 1712 - 1786

Attributed

„Love is friendship set to music.“

—  Jackson Pollock American artist 1912 - 1956

„Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds“

—  E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962

„We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.“

—  Willie Nelson American country music singer-songwriter. 1933

[The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes, 119, Random House Digital, 2003, 9780375758607, Nelson, Willie; McMurtry, Larry]

„The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

„Autumn was falling, but the pine
Seem'd as it mock'd all change; no sign
Of season on its leaf was seen,
The same dark gloom of changeless green.
But like the gorgeous Persian bands
'Mid the stern race of northern lands,
The chesnut boughs were bright with all
That gilds and mocks the autumn's fall.“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)

„It seems wrong that out of this bird,
Black, bold, a suggestion of dark
Places about it, there yet should come
Such rich music, as though the notes’
Ore were changed to a rare metal
At one touch of that bright bill.“

—  R.S. Thomas Welsh poet 1913 - 2000

"A Blackbird Singing"
Poetry For Supper (1958)

„Heaven's ebon vault,
Studded with stars unutterably bright,
Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,
Seems like a canopy which love has spread
To curtain her sleeping world.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab

Canto IV
Queen Mab (1813)

„Knowledge of instrumentation should be acquired through experience. Instrumental composition should be conceived instrumentally, imagining and hearing a particular orchestra for each particular and diverse musical condition of the mind.“

—  Francesco Balilla Pratella Italian composer 1880 - 1955

Zdroj: Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music (1911), p. 82

„Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.“

—  Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963

Acceptance speech for The Center Orange County's "Torch Bearer" Award, Santa Ana, California (5 June 2010) http://jennifer-beals.com/media/speeches/oc_gala.html.

„I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart…“

—  Regina Spektor American singer-songwriter and pianist 1980

"Fidelity"
Begin to Hope (2006)
Kontext: I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart...

„Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial
All the time it's a changing, like now…“

—  Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)

„Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.“

—  Marya Hornbacher American journalist 1974

Zdroj: Madness: A Bipolar Life

„On instruments: "Well, to be honest I don’t think it’s necessary to find out how pieces of equipment work. I would prefer to know how music works, or how my body and my mind work.“

—  Vangelis Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music 1943

After all, it’s more useful to know how to drive a car than it is to know what makes it go. Of course it’s important to know certain things about a machine, but I don’t need to be able to build my own synthesizer. It strikes me that the people who do build them don’t know how to play them, so l’d rather find out more about playing".
1984

„Listening to that performance changed my life. It changed the course of my musical career. I could listen to my heart's voice clearly because the music had helped me understand my mind's deepest desires. Today, I am happy and feel blessed that I followed the path dictated by my heart.“

—  Hariprasad Chaurasia Indian bansuri player 1938

On hearing a performance on a woodwind by Pandit Bhola Nath of Varanasi.

„There are two types of composers. Like Stravinsky, some always are aware of the instrument that will be playing a given melody. However, other composers do work out the orchestration only after they have finished composing. I'm like Stravinsky. I always write music with specific instruments in mind.“

—  Akira Ifukube Japanese composer 1914 - 2006

As quoted by David Milner, "Akira Ifukube Interview I" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/ifukub.htm, Kaiju Conversations (December 1992)

„You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that.“

—  Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

Zdroj: Blood Promise