Instrument Quotes
1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors
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Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance
— Philip Larkin
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The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument…
— Ruth St. Denis
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The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the…
— Alla Nazimova
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It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's…
— Elia Kazan
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You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of…
— T.D. Jakes
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There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
— Bill Frisell
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The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.
— Max Roach
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Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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You are not to be guided by your intellect, but by your wisdom, as you are Sahaja Yogis. So, you have a very good instrument…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes…
— G I Gurdjieff
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A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements,…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree…
— Vishnudevananda Saraswati
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The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
— Washington Irving
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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.
— Cicely Tyson
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
— Yanni
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My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
— Cam Newton
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The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts…
— Dan Buettner
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Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how…
— Howard Rheingold
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You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you do is turn…
— Jake Shimabukuro
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You know, the ukulele itself is not a very loud instrument, all right? And, you know, compared to like a trumpet, right? A trumpet is…
— Jake Shimabukuro
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments.…
— J. Cole
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I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I…
— Bill Cobbs
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You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The…
— Andrea Bocelli
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