All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass…

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

— Anatoly Chubais

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am…

— Iggy Pop

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument…

— Eve Arnold

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

— David Toop

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

— Rodney Yee

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

— Anonymous

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand,…

— Geoffrey O'Brien

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

— Lucas Grabeel

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the…

— Lewis Mumford

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

— Steve Lacy

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against…

— Nils Frahm

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

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher