Instruments Quotes

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It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur… — Richard Dawkins
I must play the instrument I've got. — Saul Bellow
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the… — Bertrand Russell
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. — David Del Tredici
People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar… — Steve Kazee
The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world. — Steve Vai
Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than… — Aldous Huxley
Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so… — Laozi
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be… — Benjamin Franklin
I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,… — Agatha Christie
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed… — James Bryce
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. — Walter Pater
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest. — William O. Douglas
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… — Susan Sontag
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. — Dean Acheson
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case… — Diana Trilling
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. — Joseph Joubert

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