Instrument Quotes

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... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't… — Steve Vai
... just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ...… — Jorma Kaukonen
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the… — Steve Vai
Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the… — Chet Atkins
It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and… — Kenny Loggins
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God… — Oscar Romero
In Europe one needs to act â€˜as ifâ€™ â€“ as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were… — Giuliano Amato
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think… — Roger Brooke Taney
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that… — Haim Ginott
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just. — Horace Mann
Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of… — Emma Goldman
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. — Humphry Davy
When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel… — Cecilia Bartoli
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time. — Cecilia Bartoli
Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion… — Federico Fellini
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
In the physical universe, there are objects that include suns, planets, all life, and all matter in all dimensions. And then there is the space… — Steve Vai
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. — Abe Fortas
The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an… — David Tudor
For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't… — Morton Feldman

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