Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have now transformed into a sensitive; a person who is able to detect when spirits are present. It's a skill that's evolved over hundreds… — Zak Bagans
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws… — Henry Ward Beecher
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull… — Steve Albini
The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live… — Lyman Spitzer
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. — Ambrose Bierce
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I… — Thomas Jefferson
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur… — Richard Dawkins
I must play the instrument I've got. — Saul Bellow
People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar… — Steve Kazee
The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world. — Steve Vai
I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,… — Agatha Christie
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed… — James Bryce
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest. — William O. Douglas
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… — Susan Sontag
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. — Dean Acheson
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case… — Diana Trilling
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano… — Madonna Ciccone
Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to… — Jacob Bronowski
If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the… — Eddie Van Halen
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. — Joshua Reynolds
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. — Yo-Yo Ma
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty,… — Robert Dale Owen

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