Instrumental Music Quotes - Page 2

• True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Drama, Discovery

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• 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.

  Colin Hanks

  Growing Up, Nerd, Towers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

  David Cook

  Thinking, Sound, Music Education

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

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• When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

  Duncan Sheik

  Teenager, Track, Machines

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• The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

  John Zorn

  Heart, Mean, Thinking

  "'Masada Songbook': Zorn Redefines Jewish Music". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. November 13, 2005.

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