Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at… — Martha Graham
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have… — Charles Rumney Samson
Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which… — James Agee
I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums… — John Bonham
Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it? — Dave Mustaine
In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor. — Pope Francis
The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the… — Alexander Graham Bell
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to… — Russell Kirk
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the… — Buddy Rich
God offers us counsel not just for our own safety but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love. There are few… — Henry B. Eyring
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the… — Bill Gates
I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art.… — Michael Jackson
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader… — Marcel Proust
We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else… — C.S. Lewis
It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the… — Oscar Peterson
Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think… — Coleman Hawkins
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the… — Ansel Adams
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. — Thomas Beecham
One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together. — Ossie Davis
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not… — Stephen Jay Gould
Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by… — Thomas A. Edison

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