Instruments Quotes
-
Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
-
Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.
-
I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to do with that. A lot of times it's just acoustic guitar and a small riff that produces a song. Ultimately you want to write a song that people are going to enjoy and that you love to play, most importantly you have to write it for yourself first.
-
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
-
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.
-
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
-
I more or less think that the trombone was chosen for me. I first selected a violin, which I didn't do too well with, and, ironically, the only thing left was the trombone. My next choice was a saxophone, but they didn't have any; so I think that the Creator had a lot to do with what I did...Because things just happened, you know, and I had no control over it. And I ended up with my instrument that I play now.
-
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
-
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.
-
I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
-
Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in research must always be the mind of man.
-
So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.
-
When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.
-
Don't be lazy. Learn your instrument and the kids should be learning that stuff. We have to get back to the musicianship of the music. It's called music, so at some point somebody has to learn how to play an instrument.
-
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
-
It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.
-
Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.
-
It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.
-
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
-
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
-
There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.
-
Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.
-
The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.
-
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
