Instrument Quotes

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

Voice is my instrument.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

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

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

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

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.