Instruments Quotes
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.
Willem Dafoe
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The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
Eve Arnold -
Technology has not advanced because people are starved for instruments to make a better civilization, but because they are starved for entertainment – technology is still mostly a toy factory for grown-ups.
Eugene J. Martin -
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
William O. Douglas -
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
Aristotle -
In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.
Wayne Shorter -
Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
Catherine Deneuve
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The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club -
Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
Klemens von Metternich -
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.
Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher -
I trust microphones, speakers and recordings less and less, and no longer buy into the idea that I can recreate at home, or in my earphones, the experience of hearing live acoustic instruments. The orchestra is already a set of speakers that react differently to each player, each room and each concert - it's that high level of uncertainly and unrepeatability that I like. The music is just soaked into the walls of a room straight from the instruments - and it's a one-off deal. The alternative - left speaker, right speaker - is kind of a compromise.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.
Wolfgang Langewiesche
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External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
Yusef Lateef -
A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.
David Howell Evans U2 -
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.
Stan Getz -
Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons -
Сommon sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
Susanne Langer -
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
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In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
Zach Condon -
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz -
The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.
George Washington -
If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.
Earl Stevens