Instruments Quotes

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It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me. — Jill Scott
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God. — Ravi Shankar
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example,… — Nate Silver
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by… — Gene Simmons
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it. — Paul Simon
You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you… — Slash
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of… — Adam Smith
I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the… — Patti Smith
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. — Eliot Spitzer
When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make… — Charles Stanley
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air. — Gertrude Stein
If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own… — Andy Summers
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind. — Taylor Swift
The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where… — Serj Tankian
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. — Henry David Thoreau
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use… — Eckhart Tolle
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. — Leo Tolstoy
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. — Harry S. Truman
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play… — Steve Vai

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