Instruments Quotes · Page 44

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal…

— Banesh Hoffmann

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should…

— Lara St. John

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments…

— Edgard Varese

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

— Bill Frisell

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

— Italo Calvino

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

— Levon Helm

There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of…

— Dwight L. Moody

I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for…

— Lizz Wright

The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional…

— Rokia Traore

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid,…

— Steve Vai

Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If…

— Marketa Irglova

Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their…

— Anonymous

Practice. Listen. Use you ears. And as Rob [Halford] said, that team effort. You can learn your instrument in your room, but…

— Richie Faulkner

I'm just the instrument for the song to do whatever it's supposed to do-heal, inspire or encourage. It's not all about me,…

— Martina McBride

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

... by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough…

— Tal Farlow

Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was…

— Steve Martin

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

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

Frequently, I go straight into the studio and see what's around. I might hire a couple of instruments that I've never used…

— Brian Eno

The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there…

— Rebecca Solnit

We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added…

— Arthur Lynch

I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things.…

— Klaus Kinski

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the…

— Margaret Atwood

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to…

— Maggie Rogers

If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.

— Drew Barrymore

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks…

— Shane Claiborne

If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

— Joni Mitchell

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

— Janet Malcolm

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

— Abe Fortas

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play…

— Frank Fairfield

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of…

— Al Pacino

The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for…

— David Crowe

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so…

— John Gresham Machen

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have…

— Kevin Spacey

I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a…

— Kim Deal

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

— Sigmund Freud