Instrument Quotes

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

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

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

My body is an instrument for me to use.

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

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

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

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.