Instruments Quotes · Page 96

[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what…

— Pharoah Sanders

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments…

— PJ Harvey

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers…

— Marcel Proust

I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. The fun of playing an assassin is that I've never killed…

— Eric McCormack

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

— Agnes Obel

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

— Steve Vai

I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument,…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or…

— Nicola Cabibbo

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

— Henry Miller

You must embrace the Word of God as the most effective instrument for change.

— T. B. Joshua

I tried to stay away from the Euro beats, and not go totally pop. Instead, I wanted to take the Quincy Jones…

— Chris Brown

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

— Miroslav Vitous

I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects.…

— Victoria Legrand

We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter.…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it,…

— Abraham Lincoln

I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!

— Anonymous

I believe the use of noise to make music will increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical…

— John Cage

. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]…

— Laurie Anderson

I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps…

— Hilary Hahn

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your…

— Audrey Hepburn

In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village…

— Freda Bright

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

— Jerrold Nadler

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff…

— Charlie Hunter

I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in…

— Yo-Yo Ma