Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and… — Stevie Nicks
I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you… — Gary Numan
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike. — Conor Oberst
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. — Yoko Ono
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that… — Charlie Parker
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through… — Mike Pence
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without… — Marcel Proust
The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power.… — Dan Quayle
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our… — Nick Rahall
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as… — Charles Rangel
I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass… — Buddy Rich
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a… — Roger Rosenblatt
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. — John Ruskin
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. — Carlos Santana
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. — George Santayana
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an… — May Sarton
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me. — Jill Scott
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example,… — Nate Silver
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by… — Gene Simmons
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it. — Paul Simon
You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you… — Slash
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of… — Adam Smith
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. — Eliot Spitzer

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