Instruments Quotes:

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

- Abbie Cornish

topic: People, Instruments

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

- Abel Korzeniowski

source: "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.

topic: Trying, Use, Instruments, Orchestration

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

- Adolph Zukor

topic: Smart, Television, Instruments

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.

- Agnes Strickland

source: Agnes Strickland (1853). “Memoirs of the Queens of Henry VIII., and His Mother, Elizabeth of York”, p.8

topic: Printing, Instruments, Printing Press, Reformation

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Instruments, Ill, Mischief

There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Two, Instruments, Clarinet

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.

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Play, Singers, Instruments

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

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Play, Different, Instruments

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

- Anatoly Chubais

topic: Kind, Instruments

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

- Andres Segovia

topic: Guitar, Play, Instruments

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

- Angela Carter

source: Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Culture, Language, Instruments, Language Culture, Power Of Language

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

- Anish Kapoor

topic: Eye, Ears, Instruments

When we're true to ourselves, we become instruments of truth for the planet. Because we're all connected, we touch the lives of everyone around us, who then affect others. Our only obligation is to be the love we are and allow our answers to come from within in the way that's most appropriate for us.

- Anita Moorjani

topic: Answers, Way, Instruments

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

- Antoine Lavoisier

topic: Use, Instruments, Creator, Vegetation

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

- Ardant du Picq

source: Sun Tzu, Einhard, Julius Caesar, Ardant du Picq, Niccol˜ Machiavelli (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.402, Lulu.com

topic: Battle, Use, 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?

- Ari Fleischer

topic: People, Looks, Instruments

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

- Arvo Part

topic: Voice, Perfect, Instruments, Human Voice

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

- Ben Nicholson

topic: Men, Agents, Instruments

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

- Bernie Worrell

topic: Money, Sex, Instruments

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

- Beryl Markham

topic: Flying, Boards, Instruments

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

- Bill Bruford

topic: Piano, Kind, Instruments

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

- Billy Higgins

topic: Voice, Firsts, Instruments, Human Voice

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

- Bobby McFerrin

topic: Instruments, Performing, Audience

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

- Bruno Dumont

source: "Juliette Binoche Honored at the Marrakesh International Film Festival". Interview with Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

topic: Needs, Actors, Instruments

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

- Bruno Latour

topic: Social, Theory, Instruments, Social Theory

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.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Men, Independence, Instruments

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Instruments

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...

- Carl Jung

topic: Art, Kind, Instruments, Memories Dreams Reflections, Collective Unconscious

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

- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

topic: World, Instruments, United Nations

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

- Chad Smith

topic: Littles, Instruments

You've got to learn your instrument.

- Charlie Parker

topic: Jazz, Instruments

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.

- Cicely Tyson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Adversity, Challenges, Instruments

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

- D. Todd Christofferson

topic: Character, Instruments

My voice is an instrument.

- David Coverdale

topic: Voice, Instruments

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

- Dean Acheson

topic: Cooperation, Instruments, United Nations, International Cooperation

Voice is my instrument.

- Debra Wilson

topic: Voice, Instruments

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.

- Eddie Van Halen

topic: Guitar, Instruments, Brutal

My body is an instrument for me to use.

- Emmanuelle Beart

topic: Use, Body, Instruments

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

- Erica Jong

topic: Silence, Blunt, Instruments

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

- Ernest Mandel

topic: Party, Revolution, Instruments

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

- Ethel Waters

topic: My Family, Whole Family, Instruments, Accompany

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

- Eugene McCarthy

topic: Kind, Judgment, Instruments

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

- Eve Arnold

topic: Cameras, Photographer, Instruments

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

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: May, Instruments, Ambiguity

Make me an instrument of thy peace.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Inspirational, Instruments

The future is a monotonous instrument

- Francis Picabia

source: Francis Picabia (2007). “I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation”, Mit Press

topic: Instruments, Monotonous

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

- Franz Schubert

topic: Guitar, Wonderful, Instruments

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

- Gary Ross

topic: Reality, Thinking, Instruments

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

- Gary Shteyngart

topic: Artist, Suffering, Instruments

The body is the instrument of the soul.

- Gary Zukav

topic: Soul, Body, Instruments

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

- Gavin Bryars

topic: Transition, Instruments

I can do a gig without an instrument

- Gavin DeGraw

topic: Gigs, Instruments

I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.

- George Washington

topic: Hands, Instruments, Providence

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

- Gordon Baxter

topic: Flying, Aviation, Instruments

Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this.

- Gordon Cooper

topic: Usa, Capture, Instruments

The banjo am the instrument for me.

- Grandpa Jones

topic: Banjos, Instruments

Whether you are out in the world, or you're at home, you are simply an instrument of God's love in your universe.

- Harold Klemp

topic: Home, World, Instruments, God's Love

Strive always to improve the instrument.

- Henry E. Steinway

topic: Strive, Instruments, Steinway Piano, Steinway

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

- Humphry Davy

source: Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

topic: Knowledge, Advancement, Instruments

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

- Idries Shah

topic: Belief, Lost, Instruments, Lost You

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

- Irving Penn

topic: Cameras, Scalpels, Instruments

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

- Isaac Barrow

topic: Instruments, Contempt

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

- Italo Calvino

topic: Men, World, Instruments

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

- J. B. Priestley

topic: Writing, Ideas, Instruments

The ukulele is the instrument of peace,

- Jake Shimabukuro

source: "BYT Interviews: Jake Shimabukuro". Interview with Jade Salazar, brightestyoungthings.com. April 23, 2013.

topic: Ukulele, Instruments

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

- Jay London

topic: Father, Blunt, Instruments

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

- Jeff VanderMeer

topic: Guitar, Play, Instruments, Electric Guitar

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

- Jerrold Nadler

source: "No More Clever Wordplay on Torture" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2007.

topic: Needs, Instruments, Torture, Interrogation

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

- Joe Bob Briggs

topic: World, Dictator, Instruments

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.

- Joe L. Wheeler

topic: Thinking, Instruments, Grew

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

- Johannes Kepler

topic: Knowledge, Telescopes, Instruments

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

- John Cale

topic: Doing You, Natural, Instruments, Blanche

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

- John French Sloan

topic: Color, Form, Instruments

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

- John Henrik Clarke

topic: Experience, Trash, Instruments, Trash Cans

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

- John Maurice Clark

topic: Knowledge, Return, Instruments, Diminishing Returns

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

- Jonathan Nolan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Understanding, Instruments, Humans, Understanding The Universe

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

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Doe, Instruments, Transport, Creating Beauty

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

- Joshua Bell

topic: Violin, Instruments, Continuing

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

- Jules Michelet

topic: Firsts, Instruments, Duty, Sacrilege, False Gods

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

- Katherine Anne Porter

topic: Symphony, Instruments, Novel

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.

- Kathryn Hulme

source: Kathryn Hulme (1956). “The Nun's Story”, Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown

topic: Awareness, Instruments

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.

- Kerry Washington

topic: Thinking, Actors, Instruments, Pianist

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

- Kristin Hersh

topic: Needs, Taste, Instruments, Good Taste

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.

- Laura Mvula

topic: Parent, Theory, Instruments

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

- Lech Walesa

topic: Important, Instruments, Powerless

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

- Lee Konitz

topic: Double Standard, Saxophone, Instruments, Clarinet

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

- Lenny Kravitz

topic: Play, Able, Instruments

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

- Leonard Bernstein

topic: Play, Orchestra, Instruments, Followership

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

- Leonid Andreyev

topic: Powerful, Argument, Instruments

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

- Levon Helm

topic: Kind, Instruments, Turns

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

- Logan Lerman

topic: Instruments

Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Purpose, Firmness, Instruments, Inconsistency

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

- Louisa May Alcott

topic: Violin, Instruments, Humans

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

- Manuel de Falla

topic: Guitar, Possibility, Instruments

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

- Marc Bloch

source: "The Historian's Craft". Book by Marc Bloch, p. 36, 1949.

topic: Doubt, Instruments

Prayer is the instrument of miracles.

- Marion G. Romney

topic: Prayer, Miracle, Instruments

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

- Martha Graham

topic: Dance, Years, Instruments, Pointe Dancers

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

- Martin Luther

topic: Assistants, Instruments

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

- May Sarton

topic: Grace, Gardening, Instruments

I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message..

- Michael Jackson

topic: Love Is, Messages, Instruments

Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

- Michael Vick

source: "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011.

topic: Use, Example, Instruments, Using Me

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

- Mick Ralphs

topic: Keyboards, Instruments

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

- Mike Figgis

topic: Musical, Cameras, Instruments, Musical Instruments

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

- Mstislav Rostropovich

source: FaceBook post by Mstislav Rostropovich from Dec 20, 2016

topic: Voice, Instruments

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

- Nastassja Kinski

topic: Wish, Instruments

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.

- Natalie MacMaster

topic: Islands, Capes, Instruments, Cape Breton, Fiddle

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

- Neil Postman

topic: Intellectual, Might, Instruments

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

- Neville Marriner

topic: Symphony, Instruments

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.

- Ornette Coleman

topic: Mean, Today, Instruments

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

- Pat Metheny

topic: Firsts, Instruments, Trumpets

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

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Waiting, Lasts, Instruments

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

- Paul David Tripp

topic: His Love, Instruments, Lives Of Others

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

- Paul Klee

topic: Hands, Instruments

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

- Paul McCartney

topic: Singers, Instruments

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

- Paul Weller

topic: Stuff, Instruments, Eastern

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Imagination, Moral, Instruments

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

- Peter De Vries

topic: Tubas, Instruments

If you're learning a new instrument, have fun...

- Phil Ehart

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

topic: Fun, Having Fun, Instruments

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

- Plato

topic: Instruments, Music Is, Math And Music, Cool Music, Music And Healing

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

- Ram Dass

topic: Ego, Use, Instruments

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.

- Richard Baxter

topic: Thinking, Common, Instruments

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

- Richard de Bury

source: Richard de Bury (2013). “Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

topic: Book, Delight, Instruments

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

- Rita Levi-Montalcini

topic: Projects, Instruments, Chemicals

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

- Ritchie Blackmore

topic: Miserable, Melancholy, Instruments

We are but as the instrument of heaven.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

topic: Destiny, Heaven, Instruments

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

- Robert Ludlum

source: Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.332, Bantam

topic: Arrogance, Instruments, Collapse

Be an instrument, a multiplier of God's blessings.

- Robert Muller

topic: Attitude, Blessing, Instruments

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

- Robin Trower

topic: Guitar, Want, Instruments, Irreplaceable

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

- Ruby Dee

topic: Paradise, Desperate, Instruments

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

- Satyajit Ray

source: Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

topic: Instruments, Western

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

- Sigrid Agren

topic: Play, Wish, Instruments

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

- Simone Veil

source: "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind". Book by Simone Veil, part 2: Uprootedness, chapter 1: Uprootedness in the Towns, 2002.

topic: Education, Culture, Instruments

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

- Stacy London

topic: Style, Want, Instruments

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

- Steve Lacy

topic: Use, Instruments, Justify

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

- Steve Vai

topic: Tunes, Miserable, Instruments

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

- Steve Vai

topic: Guitar, World, Instruments

We need to play each others instruments.

- Steven Johnson

topic: Play, Needs, Instruments

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

- T-Pain

topic: Dad, Voice, Instruments

You must embrace the Word of God as the most effective instrument for change.

- T. B. Joshua

topic: Embrace, Instruments, Word Of God

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

- Ted Hughes

topic: Instruments, Changed

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

- Thomas Overbury

source: Thomas Sackville Dorset (Earl of), Sir Thomas Overbury (1760). “Prolusions; or, Select pieces of antient poetry,--compil'd with great care from their several originals: and offer'd to the publick as specimens of the integrity that should be found in the editions of worthy authors, in three parts ... with a preface ...”, p.64

topic: Art, Men, Instruments

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

- Thomas Sydenham

source: Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.54

topic: Nature, Fever, Instruments

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

- Tom T. Hall

topic: Perfect, Musical, Instruments, Musical Instruments

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

- Tom Waits

topic: Writing, Bees, Instruments

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.

- Tony Lema

source: Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”

topic: Golf, Devil, Instruments

The harmonica is a great instrument.

- Toots Thielemans

topic: Harmonicas, Instruments

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

- Trent Reznor

topic: Failing, Instruments, Stage

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

- Trevor Rabin

topic: Guitar, Instruments

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

- Victor Wooten

topic: Music, Musician, Instruments

You are the instrument of your own illumination.

- Vivian Gornick

topic: Illumination, Instruments

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

- Walter J. Phillips

topic: Photography, Lenses, Instruments, Whole Truth

After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.

- Walter Rodney

source: Walter Rodney (2012). “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, p.47, Fahamu/Pambazuka

topic: Class, Instruments, Used

By Feeling Good Throughout the Day, you Become an Instrument of Peace

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Feel Good, Feelings, Instruments

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love, invite love to accompany you 24/7. Give away love, and it has to come streaming into your life.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Giving, Streaming, Instruments, Accompany You

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Giving, Instruments

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.

- Wayne Shorter

topic: Play, Way, Instruments

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

- William Greider

topic: Globalization, Instruments, Regimes, International Relations

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

- William Gurnall

topic: Devil, Way, Instruments

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

- William Sansom

topic: Class, Want, Instruments, Status Symbol

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

- William Westmoreland

topic: Country, Television, Instruments

You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

topic: Writing, Bears, Instruments

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

- Yusef Lateef

topic: Music, Instruments

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

- Deep Roy

topic: Play, Instruments

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

- John Debney

source: Source: www1.cbn.com

topic: Needs, Instruments, Firm

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

- Justin Adams

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Hard Times, Sound, Instruments

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Mind, Naked, Instruments

The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

- Majid Khadduri

topic: World, States, Instruments, Jihad

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

- Max Tundra

topic: Musical, Instruments, Musical Instruments

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

- Max Tundra

topic: Gigs, Instruments

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

- McCoy Tyner

topic: Piano, Orchestra, Instruments

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

- Michael Snow

topic: Ideas, Instruments

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

- Michala Petri

topic: Thinking, Instruments, Composer

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

- Polly Berrien Berends

topic: Inspirational, Baby, Instruments

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.

- Son Lux

topic: Play, Creating, Instruments, Creating Music

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

- Tod Machover

topic: Simple, Piano, Instruments, Hyper

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

- Brandy Clark

topic: Guitar, Lessons, Instruments, Music Lessons

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

- Christian McKay

topic: Jealous, Instruments, Cellists, Violinist

There are mics inside the instrument, a contact mic on my throat, and countless mics clustered around the air of the horn and throughout the room. I wanted to make something that was specific to the medium of recording.

- Colin Stetson

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Air, Rooms, Instruments

Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.

- Philo Farnsworth

topic: Television, Divine, Instruments

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

- Ralph Stanley

source: Source: brightestyoungthings.com

topic: Church, Harm, Instruments

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

- David Toop

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Ideas, Anthology, Instruments

If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.

- E-40

source: Source: allhiphop.com

topic: Play, Piano, Instruments

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

- Edouard Vuillard

topic: Armchairs, Instruments, Painter

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

- Rosemary Clooney

topic: Able, Instruments

...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives her the power to reproduce herself.

- Louis Daguerre

topic: Giving, Daguerreotypes, Instruments

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.207, VM eBooks

topic: Instruments, Circumstances, Mere

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

- Charles de Gaulle

topic: Military, Destiny, Instruments

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

topic: Law, Instruments, Abandon

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

- Felix Frankfurter

source: "McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co., 336 U.S. 187". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. February 14, 1949.

topic: May, Instruments, Ambiguity

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

- Paul Gauguin

topic: Tone, Painting, Instruments

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.364, Mango Media Inc.

topic: Powerful, Investment, Instruments

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

- Alain de Botton

topic: Memories, Anticipation, Instruments, Simplification

That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.

- Pauline Oliveros

source: Source: www.artpractical.com

topic: Computer, Instruments, Transfers

A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

- Pauline Oliveros

source: Source: www.artpractical.com

topic: Keyboards, Instruments, Mice

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

- Steve Young

source: Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

topic: Orchestra, Technique, Instruments

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

- Alan Kay

source: "Face to Face: Alan Kay Still Waiting for the Revolution". Interview with Lars Kongshem, www.scholastic.com. April/May 2003.

topic: Ideas, Computer, Instruments

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.

- Louis C. K.

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Mean, Instruments, Audience

Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Accepting, Instruments

We are all but instruments of God.

- Stonewall Jackson

topic: Soul, Instruments, Instruments Of God

The violin - that most human of all instruments.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.510, e-artnow

topic: Violin, Instruments, Humans