Instruments Quotes · Page 16

You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

— Joseph Joubert

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

— Richard de Bury

Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.

— Winston Marshall

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

— Nas

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

— Stewart Copeland

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

— Chad Smith

Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.

— Ambrose Bierce

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the…

— Ronnie Wood

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

— T-Pain

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest…

— Katy Lederer

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

— Ernest Becker

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go…

— Cicely Tyson

Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general…

— Vaclav Havel

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can…

— Jimmy Rushing

Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best…

— Laozi

I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now…

— Marian Seldes

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually…

— Max Heindel

I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind…

— Richard Goldschmidt

The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American…

— Shashi Tharoor

I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in…

— Joanna Newsom

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

We will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement,…

— George W. Bush

The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of…

— Wynton Marsalis

We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church.…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it -…

— Plotinus

Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right…

— Charles A. Beard

The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be…

— Charles Babbage

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact…

— Ernest Lawrence

We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

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

Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum…

— Lamar Boschman

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold

Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

— Immanuel Kant

You are the instrument of your own illumination.

— Vivian Gornick

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

— James Paxton

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

— Erica Jong

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

— Alex Winston

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Ben Nicholson