Instruments Quotations | Page 2

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

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

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

The body is the instrument of the soul.

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

The ukulele is the instrument of peace,

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.

I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

The future is a monotonous instrument

Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument,

Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

My body is an instrument for me to use.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him.

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

We need to play each others instruments.

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

We are all but instruments of God.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

Your humanity is your instrument.

In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.