Instrument Care Quotes

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.

When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

I love guitars, and guitars love me, but sometimes they need new homes where they can live to rock another day.

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with.

I've had to replace parts in the basses when they've gotten old or worn out, so everything isn't absolutely original.

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble...I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the wang bar, and just shake it on the floor... a Stratocaster is pretty tough - I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that with their ES-335

I've always respected and taken care of my instrument.

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

Our body is our instrument so it's really important for us to treat it right.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

I love my Fender Rhodes. It's been a part of my family since that keyboard came out, and I've had it reworked so that it's in the best condition it's actually ever been in. That is my baby.

I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

I've always been on a personal mission to save the guitar.