Instruments Quotes

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the universe.

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape.

The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had gone seriously wrong while she slept.

Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.

I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

As a writer we are our own instruments; we need to protect our instrument, because no one will protect it if we don't.

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

I do think I've learned, in the ensuing years, how to be a more effective bandleader. And maybe, just maybe, we're a little better on our instruments.

Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.

Voice is my instrument.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

My body is an instrument for me to use.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.