Instruments Quotes

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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. — Jon Bon Jovi
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient… — Paul Klee
God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play. — Lenny Kravitz
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not… — Talib Kweli
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a… — Jacques Lacan
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use. — Steve Lacy
Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. — Ted Lange
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you… — Jaron Lanier
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. — Hugh Laurie
When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all… — Spike Lee
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to… — Primo Levi
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. — C.S. Lewis
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is… — Walter Lippmann
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything! — H P Lovecraft
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. — Samuel Lover
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away… — Yo-Yo Ma
There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be,… — Yo-Yo Ma

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