Instruments Quotes · Page 15

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington.

— Miles Davis

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on…

— Yoko Ono

The light went on when I heard Phil [woods] play, and I went like, "That is why I'm playing the instrument." So…

— Jon Gordon

I try not to talk during the day when I have a show that night. My voice is my instrument, just like…

— Emo Philips

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

— Jack Brymer

Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then…

— Anonymous

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which…

— Martha Graham

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

— Nick Cannon

Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the…

— Walter Ciszek

I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social…

— Michael Franti

I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,…

— William Shakespeare

Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that…

— Anonymous

The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

— Thomas Beecham

I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to…

— Willem Dafoe

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

— Bella Thorne

At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and…

— Paul Smith

Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many…

— Thomas Harriot

I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once…

— Jamie Lidell

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable…

— E.S. Russell

There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more…

— Bela Fleck

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the…

— Philip Larkin

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went…

— Z'EV