Instruments Quotations

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

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.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

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

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

I can do a gig without an instrument

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

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

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Voice is my instrument.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.

If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.

As a writer we are our own instruments; we need to protect our instrument, because no one will protect it if we don't.

My voice is an instrument.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

You've got to learn your instrument.

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument ...

sex is the instrument and love the music ...

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .