Instruments Quotes

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be cast as the lead heroine is completely incredible.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.

Be an instrument, a multiplier of God's blessings.

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.