FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without… — Charlie Musselwhite Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing -… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
For the piano and me it is always a blind date! I meet different pianos every single day. I can't take my… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
... by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough… — Tal Farlow Copy Share Image
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change. — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The one thing about 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The Host' and 'The Mortal Instruments,' which are all well-made movies, is that they were all… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
I never really got there I just pretended that I had. What's the point of instruments? Words are a sawed off shotgun. — Radiohead Copy Share Image
My concern as a citizen and as a money manager is, Oh my God, at what point does a 'whoa' moment happen… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is an instrument of a Power bigger than himself, and bigger than all of the power that's in America today,… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument. — John Howard Copy Share Image
