Instruments Quotes · Page 9

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

— Benedict of Nursia

I play the keyboard, but I am fond of all wind instruments, the oboe in particular.

— Amit Trivedi

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.

— Bob Dylan

Anyone can make a record with instruments that work.

— Josh Freese

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

— Lech Walesa

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

— Richard Thompson

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

— Patrick Stump

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

— Jeff Ament

And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy…

— Pope Francis

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

— John Quincy Adams

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

— Yanni

Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful…

— Vera Nazarian

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

— Abbey Lincoln

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the…

— Ronnie Wood

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new…

— Harry Partch

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

— T-Pain

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for…

— Thomas Aquinas

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach…

— Jane Austen

The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,…

— James Madison

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest…

— Benito Mussolini

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to…

— Steve Goodier

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a…

— John C. Reilly

I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with…

— Seungri

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take…

— Edward Jenner

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a…

— Benjamin Smith

...the Lord of the Universe carries the entire burden of this world. You imagine you do. You can hand all your burdens…

— Ramana Maharshi

If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you…

— Mother Teresa

Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work…

— Francis Bacon

The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when…

— Thomas Merton

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it…

— George Washington

In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where…

— Joscelyn Godwin

All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.

— Mother Teresa

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

— Pablo Picasso

You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.

— Abby Brammell

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

— Victor Wooten

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

— Elvis Costello

Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

— Charles de Gaulle

Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

— Radhanath Swami