An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view.… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you. — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his… — Joyce Rupp Copy Share Image
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
The thing I've learned is it's good to restrict your palette somewhat. I will try and, say, use two or three instruments… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from… — Bennie Maupin Copy Share Image
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . .… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Hearing your voice and your instrument kind of breathe in the room, it affects the way you perform the songs. For instance,… — Denison Witmer Copy Share Image
No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
