Instrument Quotes · Page 7

“The insane human mind is the greatest scientific instrument known to mankind.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Rosemary Clooney

“When the heart is beautiful, its light shines though the eyes, vocal tones and actions of its owner.”

— Suzy Kassem

I'll write whenever I can and I'll use whatever instrument is around.

— Melody Gardot

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

— Wayne Dyer

“Work is an instrument through which you build yourself”

— Sunday Adelaja

When I got to high school, to be playing an instrument was really uncool.

— Jonas Blue

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

— Bruce Jackson

“I’d always wanted to play an instrument myself, but my folks didn’t have the dough to buy me one, and I didn’t…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

— Peter Drucker

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do…

— Ornette Coleman

You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you…

— Jake Shimabukuro

The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must…

— R. Murray Schafer

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of…

— Jerry Garcia

The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't…

— Julia Holter

Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young…

— Howard Rheingold

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort…

— Xavier Rudd

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've…

— Jerry Hunt

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to…

— J. Cole

Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can…

— Mickey Hart

As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate…

— David Sanborn

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument.…

— Bill Frisell

I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me.…

— Michael Palin

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

— Charlotte Rampling

“Life, she felt, was an instrument, and the trick was to find the tune you could play on it.”

— Owen Sheers

In reality, I never even got to have a Hank Williams instrument. I got a tie, a fishing lure and a check.

— Hank Williams III

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

— Clyde Tombaugh

“Asking to hold a musician’s instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man’s wife.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

— Elie Ducommun

“One's own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.”

— Laini Taylor

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

— Rodney Yee

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

— Dayananda Saraswati

“Must be some missing, though, to my way of thinking. The ones you win a war with. Have some supper?”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

— K'naan

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

— Jose Feliciano

It's been really fun to see what happens to my body when I don't have an instrument attached to it.

— Maggie Rogers

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

— Ben Nicholson

Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

— John Fogerty