Instruments Quotes

Make me an instrument of thy peace.

— Francis of Assisi

You've got to learn your instrument.

— Charlie Parker

Charkha is an instrument of service.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Your humanity is your instrument.

— Wayne Shorter

Strive always to improve the instrument.

— Henry E. Steinway

All things come to those who wait,

— Violet Fane

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

— May Sarton

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

— Thomas Overbury

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

— Maria Montessori

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

— Robert Bresson

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

— Mick Fleetwood

Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

— Felix Frankfurter

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

— Joe Cocker

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

— T. B. Joshua

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

— Lupe Fiasco

I would love to learn to play all instruments.

— Janelle James

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.

— Jackie Mason

'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is…

— Ramin Djawadi

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital…

— Herbert Read

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

— Anonymous

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

— Adolf Hitler

Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of…

— Michala Petri

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of…

— Anonymous

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the…

— Jon Tester

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted…

— Natalie MacMaster

That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's quite an overlap between musicians - especially drummers - who have an affection and a proclivity towards comedy and comedians who…

— David Cross

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet.…

— Wayne Kramer

God offers us counsel not just for our own safety but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love.…

— Henry B. Eyring

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm…

— John Frusciante

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to…

— Petra Haden

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices…

— Noam Chomsky

This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,…

— Russell Kirk

In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College…

— John Taylor Gatto

By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different…

— George Washington

Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer…

— Tom Waits