Instruments Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

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

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

You've got to learn your instrument.

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

We need to play each others instruments.

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.

My voice is an instrument.

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.