Instruments Quotes
1542 quotes by 1167 authors
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There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each…
— Aristotle
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington.
— Miles Davis
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This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
— Wynton Marsalis
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I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
— Stan Getz
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To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it…
— Wes Montgomery
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Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and…
— Anna Lindh
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are…
— Wyndham Lewis
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Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.
— Joseph Sobran
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I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would…
— Fred Rogers
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Do one thing every day that scares you...Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other…
— Mary Schmich
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I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
— Mike Figgis
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Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I…
— Brian McKnight
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What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and…
— David Lanz
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God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the…
— A B Simpson
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I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's…
— John Hodgman
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Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument…
— Antony Hegarty
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Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and…
— Thomas Head Raddall
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I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's…
— Lisa Loeb
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This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument…
— Leon Jouhaux
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