Instruments Quotes · Page 3

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

— Thomas Sydenham

The ukulele is the instrument of peace,

— Jake Shimabukuro

We are all but instruments of God.

— Stonewall Jackson

I can do a gig without an instrument

— Gavin DeGraw

I guess good things come to those who wait.

— Kurt Busch

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

— Bill Bruford

I must play the instrument I've got.

— Saul Bellow

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

— Marianne Williamson

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

— Yusef Lateef

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

— Bobby McFerrin

The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.

— Barry Barish

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

— Mike Figgis

There's so much fun you can have with your instruments that no one ever taught you.

— Michael Giacchino

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

— Jeff VanderMeer

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

— George Santayana

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

— Ben Nicholson

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I…

— Joe Perry

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

— Nick Cannon

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

— Abel Korzeniowski

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things,…

— Stewart Copeland

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

— Novalis

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

— Angela Carter

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter…

— Quentin Crisp

I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once…

— Jamie Lidell

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because…

— Paulo Coelho

When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You…

— Peace Pilgrim

I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I…

— Nicolas Cage

It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same…

— Ginger Baker

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings…

— Anonymous

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique…

— Billy Sheehan

The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her,…

— Maximilian Kolbe

I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a…

— Thelonious Monk

The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain…

— James Lane Allen

Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That's exactly the meaning of the word 'ecstasy':…

— Rajneesh

The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a…

— Charles A. Reich

I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I…

— Billy Sherwood

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

— Tycho Brahe

The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail…

— J. William Fulbright