Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment. — Rodney Yee
My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone… — Steve Vai
The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar… — John Petrucci
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down… — Kenny Smith
In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I am reminded of… — Joe J. Christensen
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country. — William Westmoreland
I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to… — Avicii
Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control… — Peter Newmark
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory. — Laura Mvula
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis
...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for… — Abraham Lincoln
It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really… — Leo Kottke
To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming. — Mos Def
Gardening is an instrument of grace. — May Sarton
Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves. — Patrick Stump
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. — Anais Nin
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny. — Charles de Gaulle
When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh,… — B B King
I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so… — Nate Ruess
I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I… — Nate Ruess
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else. — Ben Nicholson
Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument… — William J. Clinton
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism… — David Horowitz
Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I… — Joyce Rupp
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. — Bill Kreutzmann

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