Instrumental Quotes

Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

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

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.