Instrument Quotes

Make me an instrument of thy peace.

— Francis of Assisi

You've got to learn your instrument.

— Charlie Parker

Charkha is an instrument of service.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Your humanity is your instrument.

— Wayne Shorter

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

— Billy Ocean

Strive always to improve the instrument.

— Henry E. Steinway

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

— May Sarton

“...you play the instrument you have.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

— Joe Cocker

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

— Mick Fleetwood

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

— Brittany Murphy

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

— Lupe Fiasco

“I am only an idea, a requirement breathed to life-an instrument. A tool.”

— Dawn Metcalf

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

— Midge Ure

“Work is created to be an instrument through which you release your potential”

— Sunday Adelaja

“For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.”

— Christopher Smart

“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.”

— Pete Hamill

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do,…

— Ornette Coleman

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

— Steve Young

Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should…

— Paul Singer

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

— Don Cornelius

Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

— Lykke Li

“You need to use the instrument that the people desire to captivate them back to things that are right”

— Sunday Adelaja

I love and respect my instrument. I was born with an instinct for what is right, the correct technique, and I have…

— Mirella Freni

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm…

— John Frusciante

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow…

— Pete Townshend

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted…

— Natalie MacMaster

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done…

— Michael Snow

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the…

— Ornette Coleman

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a…

— Jaron Lanier

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant.…

— Alex Kapranos

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that…

— Lady Gaga

For me, the tabletop is an easy way to eliminate the possibilities of chords, modes, melodies, and harmonies. It kind of confines…

— Kevin Drumm

The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium…

— Bob Brozman

“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

... by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough…

— Tal Farlow

“Imagine that you are on the street and someone attacks you. If you feel that you must fight back to defend yourself,…

— Deepak Malhotra

“In this life, you only need to do this much: You must know that the other person is instrument (nimit, in bringing…

— Dada Bhagwan

I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps…

— Hilary Hahn

“I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the…

— Richard Trevithick