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
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
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
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
Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it? — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it. — Son Lux 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
With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to… — Manika Copy Share Image
I remember when I first got my cello when I was 8 years old. I remember the room it was in and… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent,… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to… — Calvin Coolidge 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
Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing… — David Berg 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
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
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
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer 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
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
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The reason I can play loads of instruments is because I kept giving up and trying another one. — Lapsley 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
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
