Instruments Quotes · Page 19

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

— Walt Whitman

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

— Umberto Eco

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

— Lenny Kravitz

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

— Plato

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

— Anonymous

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

— Steve Vai

If you're learning a new instrument, have fun.

— Phil Ehart

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

— Eknath Easwaran

“When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won’t notice…

— Ted Gioia

It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it…

— Ruta Sepetys

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an…

— J. B. Priestley

I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me…

— Ralph Stanley

I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture…

— Fred Rogers

All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle…

— Osman Baydemir

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

— Leo Kottke

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the…

— Brigham Young

Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what…

— St. Jerome

What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a…

— Jane Fonda

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary…

— Thomas Sowell

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for…

— Thomas Aquinas

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach…

— Jane Austen

I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them…

— Lita Ford

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character.…

— Lynn Johnston

The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that…

— Henry James

The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by…

— Edward Gibbon

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in…

— John Steinbeck

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And…

— Michael Ende

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where…

— Francis of Assisi

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,…

— Marcel Proust

But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention,…

— Michel Foucault

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love…

— Sharon Creech

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

— Albert Einstein

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

— George R. R. Martin

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

A man can’t have too many guitars or too many shotguns.

— Robert Earl Keen

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

— Plato

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

— Jeff Tweedy

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

— Patrick Henry