Instruments Quotes
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.
The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.
We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.
Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?
The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.
Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.
Whether you are out in the world, or you're at home, you are simply an instrument of God's love in your universe.
Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.
The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.
The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.
Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.
In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.
I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.
In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.
I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
The music was great for teaching about human nature. but I couldn't do any instruments or play anything. I like to sing. I'd rather sing than eat, but most people would rather hear me eat.
When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.
Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.
I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.
I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.
Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.