quotes about Instruments
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
-- Abbie Cornish -
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
-- Abel KorzeniowskiSource : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.
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Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
-- Adolph Zukor -
The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.
-- Agnes StricklandSource : Agnes Strickland (1853). “Memoirs of the Queens of Henry VIII., and His Mother, Elizabeth of York”, p.8
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
-- Alexander Pope -
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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 -
I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
-- Amy Winehouse -
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Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
-- Andres Segovia -
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
-- Angela CarterSource : Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA
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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
-- Anish Kapoor -
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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.
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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.
-- Ardant du PicqSource : Sun Tzu, Einhard, Julius Caesar, Ardant du Picq, Niccol˜ Machiavelli (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.402, Lulu.com
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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 -
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The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.
-- Arvo Part -
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
-- Ben Nicholson -
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
-- Bernie Worrell -
all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.
-- Beryl Markham -
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You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
-- Billy Higgins -
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.
-- Bruno DumontSource : "Juliette Binoche Honored at the Marrakesh International Film Festival". Interview with Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.
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Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
-- Bruno Latour -
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 -
Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...
-- Carl Jung -
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
-- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.
-- Chad Smith -
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 TysonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
-- D. Todd Christofferson -
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
-- Dean Acheson -
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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 -
The painter’s instrument is his armchair.
-- Edouard Vuillard -
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Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
-- Ernest Mandel -
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
-- Ethel Waters -
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 -
The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
-- Eve Arnold -
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Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
The future is a monotonous instrument
-- Francis PicabiaSource : Francis Picabia (2007). “I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation”, Mit Press
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The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.
-- Franz Schubert -
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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 -
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
-- Gary Shteyngart -
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
-- Gavin Bryars -
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I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.
-- George Washington -
Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.
-- Gordon Baxter -
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 -
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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 -
Strive always to improve the instrument.
-- Henry E. Steinway -
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
-- Humphry DavySource : Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54
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When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
-- Idries Shah -
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 -
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
-- Isaac Barrow -
We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.
-- Italo Calvino -
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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 -
The ukulele is the instrument of peace,
-- Jake ShimabukuroSource : "BYT Interviews: Jake Shimabukuro". Interview with Jade Salazar, brightestyoungthings.com. April 23, 2013.
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I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
-- Jay London -
If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
-- Jeff VanderMeer -
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We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.
-- Jerrold NadlerSource : "No More Clever Wordplay on Torture" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2007.
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A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
-- Joe Bob Briggs -
Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.
-- Joe L. Wheeler -
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.
-- Johannes Kepler -
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In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.
-- John Cale -
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
-- John French Sloan -
Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY
-- John Henrik Clarke -
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
-- John Maurice Clark -
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We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
-- Jonathan NolanSource : Source: collider.com
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
-- Joseph Joubert -
What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.
-- Joshua Bell -
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
-- Jules Michelet -
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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 -
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 HulmeSource : Kathryn Hulme (1956). “The Nun's Story”, Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown
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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 -
Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
-- Kristin Hersh -
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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 -
Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.
-- Lech Walesa -
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
-- Lee Konitz -
God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
-- Lenny Kravitz -
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The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.
-- Leonard Bernstein -
It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!
-- Leonid Andreyev -
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
-- Levon Helm -
When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.
-- Logan Lerman -
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Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
…the violin — that most human of all instruments…
-- Louisa May Alcott -
The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.
-- Manuel de Falla -
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
-- Marc BlochSource : "The Historian's Craft". Book by Marc Bloch, p. 36, 1949.
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The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.
-- Maria Montessori -
God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.
-- Mark Dever -
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 -