Quotes about Instrument

I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message.. Votes: 3

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments. Votes: 3

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God. Votes: 3

By Feeling Good Throughout the Day, you Become an Instrument of Peace Votes: 3

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. Votes: 3

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument. Votes: 3

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic. Votes: 3

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. Votes: 2

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Votes: 2

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Votes: 2

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. Votes: 2

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously. Votes: 2

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. Votes: 2

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. Votes: 2

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. Votes: 2

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. Votes: 2

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. Votes: 2

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. Votes: 2

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. Votes: 2

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. Votes: 2

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought. Votes: 2

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones. Votes: 2

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band. Votes: 2

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. Votes: 2

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. Votes: 2

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. Votes: 2

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife. Votes: 2

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it. Votes: 2

When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow. Votes: 2

You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night. Votes: 2

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. Votes: 2

God offers us counsel not just for our own safety, but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love. There are few comforts so sweet as to know that we have been an instrument in the hands of God in leading someone else to safety. That blessing generally requires the faith to follow counsel when it is hard to do. Votes: 2

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist. Votes: 2

Voice is my instrument. Votes: 0

Everybody is someone else's instrument. Votes: 0

Fever itself is Nature's instrument. Votes: 0

Writing is a political instrument. Votes: 0

Your humanity is your instrument. Votes: 0

My voice is an instrument. Votes: 0

Strive always to improve the instrument. Votes: 0

Prayer is the instrument of miracles. Votes: 0

The future is a monotonous instrument Votes: 0

Charkha is an instrument of service. Votes: 0

Gardening is the instrument of grace. Votes: 0

You've got to learn your instrument. Votes: 0

...you play the instrument you have. Votes: 0

The harmonica is a great instrument. Votes: 0

Gardening is an instrument of grace. Votes: 0

The painter’s instrument is his armchair. Votes: 0

Make me an instrument of thy peace. Votes: 0

I must play the instrument I've got. Votes: 0

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. Votes: 0

The banjo am the instrument for me. Votes: 0

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. Votes: 0

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself. Votes: 0

The ukulele is the instrument of peace, Votes: 0

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. Votes: 0

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument. Votes: 0

Be an instrument, a multiplier of God's blessings. Votes: 0

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. Votes: 0

Self love is the instrument of our preservation. Votes: 0

You are the instrument of your own illumination. Votes: 0

If you're learning a new instrument, have fun... Votes: 0

I can do a gig without an instrument Votes: 0

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. Votes: 0

The idea that recording itself is an instrument. Votes: 0

We don't see profit as a blind instrument. Votes: 0

The body is the instrument of the soul. Votes: 0

The piano is kind of my second instrument. Votes: 0

We are but as the instrument of heaven. Votes: 0

My first instrument was a little blue ukele. Votes: 0

sex is the instrument and love the music ... Votes: 0

Samples are kind of my instrument of choice. Votes: 0

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. Votes: 0

Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change. Votes: 0

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! Votes: 0

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. Votes: 0

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country. Votes: 0

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian. Votes: 0

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Votes: 0

My body is an instrument for me to use. Votes: 0

I wish I could sing or play an instrument. Votes: 0

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! Votes: 0

Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly. Votes: 0

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world. Votes: 0

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument. Votes: 0

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Votes: 0

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument. Votes: 0

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument ... Votes: 0

Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries. Votes: 0

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. Votes: 0

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument. Votes: 0

Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things. Votes: 0

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. Votes: 0

Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing Votes: 0

O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre. Votes: 0

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making. Votes: 0

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument. Votes: 0

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument. Votes: 0

Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak! Votes: 0

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes. Votes: 0

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny. Votes: 0

Use me as an example of an instrument of change. Votes: 0

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. Votes: 0

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all. Votes: 0

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy. Votes: 0

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them. Votes: 0

I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to. Votes: 0

Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath. Votes: 0

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced. Votes: 0

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. Votes: 0

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world. Votes: 0

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use. Votes: 0

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. Votes: 0

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. Votes: 0

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation. Votes: 0

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument. Votes: 0

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. Votes: 0

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization. Votes: 0

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education. Votes: 0

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. Votes: 0

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. Votes: 0

I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence. Votes: 0

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats. Votes: 0

Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal. Votes: 0

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument. Votes: 0

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. Votes: 0

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought? Votes: 0

A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument. Votes: 0

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth Votes: 0

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. Votes: 0

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. Votes: 0

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless. Votes: 0

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument. Votes: 0

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. Votes: 0

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. Votes: 0

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. Votes: 0

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. Votes: 0

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. Votes: 0

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. Votes: 0

The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. Votes: 0

Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. Votes: 0

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. Votes: 0

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. Votes: 0

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. Votes: 0

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. Votes: 0

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome. Votes: 0

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression. Votes: 0

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace. Votes: 0

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it. Votes: 0

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument. Votes: 0

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument. Votes: 0

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me. Votes: 0

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. Votes: 0

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow. Votes: 0

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice. Votes: 0

Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines' Votes: 0

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know? Votes: 0

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice. Votes: 0

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument. Votes: 0

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. Votes: 0

The heart is the instrument of love it refutes lies and embrace love Votes: 0

This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance. Votes: 0

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. Votes: 0

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. Votes: 0

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth. Votes: 0

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed! Votes: 0

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license. Votes: 0

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. Votes: 0

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument. Votes: 0

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself. Votes: 0

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument! Votes: 0

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument. Votes: 0

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government. Votes: 0

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you. Votes: 0

Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument. Votes: 0

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. Votes: 0

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. Votes: 0

An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way. Votes: 0

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument. Votes: 0

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution. Votes: 0

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two. Votes: 0

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Votes: 0

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing. Votes: 0

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. Votes: 0

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative. Votes: 0

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. Votes: 0

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument, Votes: 0

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. Votes: 0

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child. Votes: 0

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy. Votes: 0

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves. Votes: 0

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind. Votes: 0

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. Votes: 0

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies. Votes: 0

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Votes: 0

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty. Votes: 0

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune. Votes: 0

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism. Votes: 0

You must embrace the Word of God as the most effective instrument for change. Votes: 0

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought. Votes: 0

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. Votes: 0

The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love. Votes: 0

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several. Votes: 0

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar, Votes: 0

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else. Votes: 0

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love. Votes: 0

The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. Votes: 0

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself. Votes: 0

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities. Votes: 0

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth. Votes: 0

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets. Votes: 0

It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be. Votes: 0

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations. Votes: 0

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself. Votes: 0

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional. Votes: 0

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. Votes: 0

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. Votes: 0

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. Votes: 0

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural. Votes: 0

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play. Votes: 0

A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument. Votes: 0

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union. Votes: 0

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile. Votes: 0

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass. Votes: 0

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. Votes: 0

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument. Votes: 0

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument. Votes: 0

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. Votes: 0

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. Votes: 0

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument. Votes: 0

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument. Votes: 0

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. Votes: 0

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. Votes: 0

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it. Votes: 0

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. Votes: 0

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy. Votes: 0

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument. Votes: 0

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable. Votes: 0

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument. Votes: 0

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. Votes: 0

You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul. Votes: 0

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument. Votes: 0

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician. Votes: 0

God's Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people. Votes: 0

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years. Votes: 0

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument. Votes: 0

A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music. Votes: 0

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. Votes: 0

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely. Votes: 0

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. Votes: 0

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. Votes: 0

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. Votes: 0

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness. Votes: 0

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. Votes: 0

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an "instrument of God's will. Votes: 0

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. Votes: 0

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar. Votes: 0

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. Votes: 0

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay. Votes: 0

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument. Votes: 0

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. Votes: 0

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. Votes: 0

Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument. Votes: 0

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others. Votes: 0

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps. Votes: 0

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. Votes: 0

Playing an instrument is its own reward.Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. Votes: 0

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy. Votes: 0

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument. Votes: 0

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play. Votes: 0

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto. Votes: 0

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere. Votes: 0

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music. Votes: 0

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. Votes: 0

There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master. Votes: 0

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. Votes: 0

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things. Votes: 0

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form. Votes: 0

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. Votes: 0

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings. Votes: 0

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. Votes: 0

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. Votes: 0

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument. Votes: 0

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony. Votes: 0

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. Votes: 0

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Votes: 0

Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference. Votes: 0

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear. Votes: 0

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything. Votes: 0

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change. Votes: 0

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men. Votes: 0

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet. Votes: 0

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] Votes: 0

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. Votes: 0

Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world. Votes: 0

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change, Votes: 0

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it. Votes: 0

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. Votes: 0

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there. Votes: 0

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change. Votes: 0

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately Votes: 0

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument~? Votes: 0

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately. Votes: 0

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use. Votes: 0

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself Votes: 0

I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given. Votes: 0

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die. Votes: 0

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting. Votes: 0

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. Votes: 0

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument... Votes: 0

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were. Votes: 0

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. Votes: 0

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave. Votes: 0

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument. Votes: 0

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. Votes: 0

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. Votes: 0

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. Votes: 0

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument. Votes: 0

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. Votes: 0

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. Votes: 0

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. Votes: 0

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God. Votes: 0

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) Votes: 0

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. Votes: 0

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. Votes: 0

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. Votes: 0

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across. Votes: 0

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end. Votes: 0

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. Votes: 0

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together. Votes: 0

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements. Votes: 0

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Votes: 0

Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful. Votes: 0

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. Votes: 0

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment. Votes: 0

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play. Votes: 0

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities. Votes: 0

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language. Votes: 0

If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me. Votes: 0

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly. Votes: 0

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. Votes: 0

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear. Votes: 0

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! Votes: 0

As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree. Votes: 0

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument. Votes: 0

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill. Votes: 0

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. Votes: 0

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. Votes: 0

I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs. Votes: 0

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak. Votes: 0

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. Votes: 0

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me. Votes: 0

It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation. Votes: 0

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. Votes: 0

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it. Votes: 0

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Votes: 0

In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression. Votes: 0

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. Votes: 0

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery. Votes: 0

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument? Votes: 0

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. Votes: 0

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress. Votes: 0

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records. Votes: 0

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. Votes: 0

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. Votes: 0

Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him. Votes: 0

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body. Votes: 0

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song. Votes: 0

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body Votes: 0

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it. Votes: 0

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing. Votes: 0

The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument. Votes: 0

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion. Votes: 0

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. Votes: 0

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin. Votes: 0

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound. Votes: 0

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it? Votes: 0

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable. Votes: 0

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on Votes: 0

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. Votes: 0

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me. Votes: 0

Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock Votes: 0

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY Votes: 0

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with. Votes: 0

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. Votes: 0

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment. Votes: 0

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. Votes: 0

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. Votes: 0

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private. Votes: 0

You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear. Votes: 0

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Votes: 0

I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music. Votes: 0

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics. Votes: 0

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body. Votes: 0

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem. Votes: 0

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. Votes: 0

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me. Votes: 0

...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein. Votes: 0

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body. Votes: 0

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people. Votes: 0

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards. Votes: 0

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. Votes: 0

I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views. Votes: 0

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension Votes: 0

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person. Votes: 0

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him. Votes: 0

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming. Votes: 0

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you. Votes: 0

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality. Votes: 0

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. Votes: 0

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. Votes: 0

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost. Votes: 0

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past. Votes: 0

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. Votes: 0

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man. Votes: 0

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. Votes: 0

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path. Votes: 0

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality. Votes: 0

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument. Votes: 0

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love. Votes: 0

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings. Votes: 0

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. Votes: 0

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality. Votes: 0

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it. Votes: 0

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. Votes: 0

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself. Votes: 0

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played Votes: 0

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world. Votes: 0

Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie? Votes: 0

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport. Votes: 0

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits. Votes: 0

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice. Votes: 0

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put. Votes: 0

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. Votes: 0

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money. Votes: 0

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played. Votes: 0

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money. Votes: 0

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. Votes: 0

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument. Votes: 0

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage. Votes: 0

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just. Votes: 0

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it. Votes: 0

I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life. Votes: 0

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. Votes: 0

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better. Votes: 0

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities. Votes: 0

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing. Votes: 0

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together. Votes: 0

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being Votes: 0

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. Votes: 0

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for. Votes: 0

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano. Votes: 0

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school. Votes: 0

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument. Votes: 0

Whether you are out in the world, or you're at home, you are simply an instrument of God's love in your universe. Votes: 0

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument. Votes: 0

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice. Votes: 0

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. Votes: 0

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. Votes: 0

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images. Votes: 0

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. Votes: 0

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go. Votes: 0

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin. Votes: 0

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. Votes: 0

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument. Votes: 0

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms. Votes: 0

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages. Votes: 0

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double. Votes: 0

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you. Votes: 0

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time. Votes: 0

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well. Votes: 0

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff. Votes: 0

The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. Votes: 0

If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care! Votes: 0

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. Votes: 0

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery. Votes: 0

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. Votes: 0

As a writer we are our own instruments; we need to protect our instrument, because no one will protect it if we don't. Votes: 0

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. Votes: 0

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for. Votes: 0

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps. Votes: 0

I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument. Votes: 0

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra. Votes: 0

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. Votes: 0

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart; the most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. Votes: 0

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time. Votes: 0

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Votes: 0

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer. Votes: 0

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss. Votes: 0

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color. Votes: 0

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. Votes: 0

Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil. Votes: 0

The girl doesn't need a violin," he added. "She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again. Votes: 0

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it. Votes: 0

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again. Votes: 0

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely. Votes: 0

No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is. Votes: 0