Instrument Quotes · Page 5

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

— Don Cornelius

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

— Steve Young

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Joe Cocker

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

“The distinguishing mark of man is the hand , the instrument with which he does all his mischief.”

— George Orwell

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 learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

— Marcello Giordani

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

— Mirella Freni

Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so…

— Gloria Estefan

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

— Ornette Coleman

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being…

— Kim Gordon

Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.

— Scott Michael Foster

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

— Dada Bhagwan

“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with…

— David Brooks

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first…

— Suzi Quatro

Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument.…

— David Garrett

“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how to play (though yes, I do know how to play the keys), but…

— Lebo Grand

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself…

— Henning Mankell

“You can remain faultless only when you constantly remain as a nimit [instrument, one of the doer and not the whole and…

— Dada Bhagwan

“When I got back to my billet I found my farmer at table with his wife and niece. “Tell me,” I said…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

— George Stevens

The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.

— Joe Mande

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

— Don Henley

“Work is an instrument through which you carry out your life mandate”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Elvis Costello

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

— Dallas Roberts

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

— Dalai Lama

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.

— Bob Dylan

“...for we are always at one with the instrument of our magic spells.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

— Dave Mustaine

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

— Mick Ralphs

“P.S. We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”

— André Aciman

“Work is an instrument through which you bring yourself to fulfillment”

— Sunday Adelaja

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

— Howard Shore

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

— Cam Newton