Instruments Quotes · Page 19

I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good…

— Zeena Parkins

[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to…

— Clark Terry

“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

— Claudia Rankine

And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in…

— Samuel Adams

No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to…

— Anonymous

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

— Laozi

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music.…

— Yelawolf

Good things come to those who initiate.

— Susan RoAne

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

— Max Tundra

I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things.…

— Klaus Kinski

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all…

— Patrick Wolf

For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and…

— Tycho Brahe

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the…

— Kevin Richardson

When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became…

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He…

— Helen Mirren

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

— Lani Guinier

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your…

— Mother Teresa

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of…

— William Henry Ashley

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and…

— Denis Diderot

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

— Alain de Botton

The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written…

— John Marshall

You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like,…

— Anonymous

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the…

— George Benson

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne