#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

They didn't know anything about the candidates and things of that sort. So they needed guidance. And that league was very instrumental in directing the people in the direction to go. ↗

— Charles Phillips

#anything #candidates #directing #direction #go

I musn't run away. ↗

— Hideaki Anno

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

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist... ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#pedagogy #education

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#dust #includes #instrumentals #live #more

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 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 #huge #i #instrumental #lot

I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz. ↗

— John Hughes

#instrumental #jazz #listen #listened #much

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#colonies #different #establishing #exaggerated #instrumental