Instruments Quotes · Page 52

In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is…

— Carl Flesch

Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious…

— Vishnudevananda Saraswati

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to…

— Theophilus London

You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself…

— Norman Mailer

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

— Marc Ribot

There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I…

— Paulina Rubio

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a…

— Milan Kundera

There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

— Victoria Legrand

I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and…

— Aristotle

We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach…

— Dan Ariely

[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument…

— Henry Fox Talbot

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of…

— Tony Blair

The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace.…

— Anonymous

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

— Rosemary Clooney

We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it -…

— Plotinus

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your…

— Joe Louis Walker

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the…

— Andres Segovia

I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee…

— Victoria Legrand

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

— Alain de Botton

[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section,…

— Thomas George Bonney

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

— John Darnielle