Instruments Quotes

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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to… — Russell Kirk
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Science is only â€˜oneâ€™ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible… — Paul Feyerabend
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the… — Buddy Rich
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that… — Errico Malatesta
God offers us counsel not just for our own safety but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love. There are few… — Henry B. Eyring
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the… — Bill Gates
I thinkâ€¦to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art.… — Michael Jackson
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships… — Thomas Jefferson
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader… — Marcel Proust
We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else… — C.S. Lewis
The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away. — Umberto Eco
It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the… — Oscar Peterson
Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think… — Coleman Hawkins
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the… — Ansel Adams
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. — Thomas Beecham
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility… — Hector Berlioz
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. — Neville Marriner
One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together. — Ossie Davis

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