Instruments Quotes

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I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably. — R. Buckminster Fuller
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else. — Ben Nicholson
Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument… — William J. Clinton
To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced… — John F. Kennedy
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism… — David Horowitz
Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I… — Joyce Rupp
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. — Bill Kreutzmann
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have now transformed into a sensitive; a person who is able to detect when spirits are present. It's a skill that's evolved over hundreds… — Zak Bagans
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries
[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music… — Rabindranath Tagore
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws… — Henry Ward Beecher
Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of… — Sivananda
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull… — Steve Albini
The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live… — Lyman Spitzer
Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your… — Ian Shoales
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere… — Walter Lippmann
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big… — Joseph Addison
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. — Ambrose Bierce
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I… — Thomas Jefferson

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