Instruments Quotes

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced.

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.