Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. — Thomas Browne
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play. — Charlie Parker
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. — Yusef Lateef
I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. — Bobby McFerrin
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. — Oscar Peterson
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
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
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
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
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
There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument. — Bill Frisell
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument. — Max Roach
Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful. — Nirmala Srivastava
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
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
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
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
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
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
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. — Washington Irving

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