Instruments Quotes · Page 27

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

— Dan Flavin

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with…

— Kaki King

The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments…

— Ludwig von Mises

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

— Humphry Davy

I really love action. I really love doing my own stunts. I would love to do more of that. I've done a…

— Ksenia Solo

My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around…

— Michael Franti

Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which…

— Walter E. Williams

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to…

— Avicii

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond…

— Max Roach

Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending…

— Josh Garrels

What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support…

— Thomas Jefferson

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

— Manuel de Falla

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would…

— Aristotle

The first instrument I had was made in the late '70s. Back then they had basically one tuning. I shifted slightly away…

— Greg Howard

Communism is not only a national belief but it implies the giving up of real property especially of landed property, and the…

— Leon V. DePoncins

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done…

— Michael Snow

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments…

— P. J. Harvey

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

— Kaci Brown

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the…

— Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended.…

— Serj Tankian

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand,…

— Charlie Parker

O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.

— Johannes Kepler

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of…

— Alan Watts

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

— William Shakespeare