Instrumentation Quotes

• No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

  Michael Bolton

  Real, Matter, Digital

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• In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, because those limitations allowed us to push ourselves as songwriters and gave us a strong sound that people could recognize as ours, like wearing a leather jacket every day. A uniform. They know it's you - and that's great - but my original intention wasn't to be a shoegaze band or to be derivative of one sound.

  Tamaryn

  Strong, Self, Leather Jackets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without such endeavors and the evolution of associated instrumentation, initially of purely scientific interest, most of the investigations that lead to the basic equations of electromagnetism would have been missed. ... We would have been deprived of electromagnetic machinery as well as knowledge of electromagnetic waves.

  Frederick Seitz

  Knowledge, Science, Cells

  Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.14, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

  Zach Condon

  Thinking, Giving, Way

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  Tammin Sursok

  Jewels, Listening, Dido

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Dad, Imagination, Details

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• Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

  Daniel Smith

  Song, Guitar, Together

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• I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

  Amy Lee

  School, Different, Realization

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• Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.

  Justin Broadrick

  Rocks, Guitar, Creative

  Interview with Justinas Mikulskis, secretthirteen.org.

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• I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

  Elton John

  Hate, Firsts, I Hate

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

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• I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.

  Aaliyah

  Music, Beautiful, Song

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• I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head. I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs...A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really. A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many similar elements: harmonic rhythm, placement of the chord changes, choice of harmonic progressions, similar instrumentation, vocal phrases, drum fills, content, even the timbre of the lead solo voice. I decided to write a song that incorporated all these elements in one record.

  Neil Sedaka

  Song, Writing, Voice

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• Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Country, Style, Different

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• After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational evidence from highly trained and reliable lay witnesses to indicate that there are unidentified machine-like objects under intelligent control operating in our atmosphere. Such evidence in some cases is supported by anomalous physical effects upon the witnesses, electrical devices, and the environment, as well as by instrumentation such as radar and Geiger counters.

  Raymond E. Fowler

  Intelligent, Years, Atmosphere

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• Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

  Carter Burwell

  Unique, Voice, Musical

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• Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

  Nelly Furtado

  Heritage, Brazil, Portugal

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• It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Pulse, Stories, World

  Source: deadline.com

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• Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot and do not see... We do now know from instrumentation developed just in the last fifty years more about some of what's out there in the universe.

  Mary Davis

  Years, Survival, Five Senses

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• Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones

  Gerry Mulligan

  Two, Twenties, Three

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• Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

  Anne Dudley

  Ideas, Two, Want

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• I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Song, Thinking

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• The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

  Ariel Pink

  Night, Trying, Sound

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation, great editing, great sonics, great mixing, and great mastering. It all comes together to make something truly great, and I think each element combines together to create a powerful impact on the consumer.

  Joey Sturgis

  Powerful, Thinking, Impact

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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