Instruments Quotes

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

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.

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

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

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

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'.

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.