Instruments Quotes

• The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.

  

  Mstislav Rostropovich
  • Feminine
  • Register
  • Sopranos

• Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

  

  Serge Daney
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Cinema

• Lots of kids when they get their first instrument hammer away at it but they don't realise there are so many levels of dynamics with a guitar. You can play one note on a guitar and it really gets to people if it is the right note in the right place played by the right person.

  

  Gary Moore
  • People
  • Realising
  • Dynamics

• I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think regular touring has forced me to play the guitar more than anything else, which is why I'm probably most confident playing that. And whist I'd be lost if I couldn't play it too, I dislike the totemic worship of the thing... magazines, collectors, and so on. I enjoy struggling with instruments I can't really play.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Radiohead

• Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.

  

  William Henry Chamberlin
  • Political
  • Natural
  • Policy

• Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic. Before the invention of navigational instruments, a beautiful lady was carved on the prow of the boat to help sailors cross the ocean; and architects, grappling with the intangibles of design, select a guru whose work gives them personal help in areas where there are few rules to follow. The guru, as architectural father-figure, is subject to intense hate and love; either way, the relationship is personal, and necessarily one-to-one.

  

  Denise Scott Brown
  • Relationship
  • Follow
  • Necessarily

• I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Play
  • Musician
  • I Do Not

• I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • I Love
  • Instruments
  • Sounds

• We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Play
  • Instruments
  • Accused

• The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Miserable
  • Melancholy
  • Isolated

• All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Singing
  • Instruments
  • VIolins

• For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.

  

  Gary Panter
  • Growing
  • Parent
  • Musical

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

  

  Kevin James
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

  

  Midge Ure Ultravox
  • Firsts
  • Guitar
  • Favorite

• Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.

  

  David Garrett
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

• An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

  

  William Petty
  • House
  • Mean
  • Gains

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

  

  Sappho
  • Instruments
  • Heavenly
  • Tortoises

• Sextants that divided the sky into angles not found in the usual geometries, microscopes whose hermetically sealed lenses distorted the viewed object into shimmering rainbow images, other instruments whose complexity and manifold adjustments quite overwhelmed my powers of speculation as to their use

  

  K. W. Jeter
  • Sky
  • Divided
  • Microscopes

• So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

  

  Stewart Copeland The Police
  • Play
  • Instruments
  • Suppose

• I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Criticism
  • Illusion
  • Human Love

• Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Play
  • Instruments
  • Contempt

• I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

  

  William Herschel
  • Found
  • Lasts
  • Humour

• I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

  

  William Lilly
  • Believe
  • Divine
  • Permission

• What grieves me is that I am constantly forgetting to recognize God’s hand in the little, everyday trials of life, and instead of receiving them as from Him, find fault with the instruments by which He sends them.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Life
  • Forgetting
  • Grieves

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