I think when you're learning an instrument you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

When I started learning the cello I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense as a method for comprehending all observable reality and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home I play the piano and make them on the piano.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.