#instrumental

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene. ↗

— Andrew Morton

#bbc #family #i #inflated #instrumental

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. ↗

— Tony Iommi

#basically #blues #clapton #early #english

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#attention #creative #experiential #focus #instrumental

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. ↗

— George Crumb

#development #idioms #instrumental #music #new

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside. ↗

— Ali Akbar Khan

#because #important #inside #instrument #instrumental

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing. ↗

— Al Spalding

#actor #ball #ball player #could #doing

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. ↗

— Andy Summers

#i #i think #instrumental #like #play

I musn't run away. ↗

— Hideaki Anno

#depression #fear #instrumentality #life #shinji-ikari

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#catchy #doing #harmonic #i #instrumental

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#fact #good #good manager #i #instrumental