Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument… — Plato Copy Share Image
I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no… — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when… — Jean Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is:… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
To me living and music are all the same thing. And I keep finding out more about music as I learn more… — McCoy Tyner Copy Share Image
Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with… — Kaki King Copy Share Image
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable. — Robin Trower Copy Share Image
My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
The reason I can play loads of instruments is because I kept giving up and trying another one. — Lapsley Copy Share Image
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic! — Trilok Gurtu Copy Share Image
The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with. — George Washington Copy Share Image
God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image