Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives… — Andrew Johnson
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. — Jon Bon Jovi
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient… — Paul Klee
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a… — Jacques Lacan
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use. — Steve Lacy
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you… — Jaron Lanier
When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all… — Spike Lee
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to… — Primo Levi
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. — C.S. Lewis
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything! — H P Lovecraft
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the… — Yo-Yo Ma
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. — Steve Martin
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument. — Paul McCartney
I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with… — Unknown Author
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. — Marilyn Monroe
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin? — Marilyn Monroe
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. — Alanis Morissette
I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete,… — Alanis Morissette
I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm… — Jason Mraz
I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes. — Brittany Murphy
Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have… — Mike Myers
You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set… — Mira Nair

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