Instruments Quotes

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Charkha is an instrument of service.

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.

Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

There's just something really, really timeless about live instruments. There's just something special about them that you can't really duplicate or grasp without including live instruments.

I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well.

I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only two that I've really stayed true to are guitar and piano.

There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.

I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

If you're learning a new instrument, have fun.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him.

I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.

If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.

The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.