Musical Instruments Quotes
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![In music, instruments perform the functions of the colors employed in painting. - Honoré de Balzac quote.](/img/q/81/36281A-in-music-instruments-perform-the-functions-colors-employed-painting-honore-de-balzac.png)
In music, instruments perform the functions of the colors employed in painting.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
Bagpipes are the missing link between music and noise.
![The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments—the very lower bowel of music. - Peter De Vries quote.](/img/q/92/41392A-the-tuba-is-certainly-the-most-intestinal-instruments-very-lower-peter-de-vries.png)
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments—the very lower bowel of music.
To the ears of a musical novice, the tuba ranks lowest in the family of instruments—an oafish cousin with a voice like a bullfrog. It lacks the flash of a saxophone, the brashness of a trumpet or the showiness of a piccolo—the melodic equivalent of a St. Bernard, warbling from the orchestra's back row.