Instruments Quotes

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It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay… — Amelia Bloomer
Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour!… — Benito Mussolini
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… — Jacques Barzun
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. — John Maurice Clark
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. — Plotinus
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. — Thomas Browne
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play. — Charlie Parker
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. — Yusef Lateef
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with… — Edgard Varese
I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. — Bobby McFerrin
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. — Oscar Peterson
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance — Philip Larkin
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to… — Christopher Hitchens
Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less… — Eric Hoffer
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument… — Ruth St. Denis
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the… — Alla Nazimova
It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's… — Elia Kazan
You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of… — T.D. Jakes
There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument. — Bill Frisell
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument. — Max Roach

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