Instruments Quotes

• The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Earth
  • Problem
  • Reason

• Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them inwardly for the blessings they bring us.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Instruments

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

  

  Steve Martin
  • Song
  • Cheerful
  • Banjos

• I'm a singer. I play keyboards, acoustic and electric 6 & 12 string guitars, bass guitar, flute, mandolin, accordion, percussion, dulcimer, psaltry. When I write songs, often the material will suggest certain instrumentation, so I endeavor to play these parts on their specific instruments.

  

  David Longdon
  • Songs
  • Singer
  • Instruments

• We do not have to borrow in the external market, but we have used and are using this traditional instrument in international financial relations.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Financial
  • Used
  • Relation

• I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.

  

  Amanda Perez
  • Playing
  • Listen
  • Instruments

• You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Instruments
  • Oppression

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

  

  Rosemary Clooney
  • Able
  • Instruments

• Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

  

  Cootie Williams
  • Change
  • Players
  • Instruments

• It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Ideas
  • Instruments

• Our pointe shoes are our instruments. If something's wrong with my feet, all my mind goes there. I usually have six pairs ready. Soft shoes for one act, stiffer shoes for another, stronger shoes for a variation with a lot of turns.

  

  Nina Ananiashvili
  • Act
  • Instruments
  • Pointe Shoe

• On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Painting
  • Instruments
  • Tone

• There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Depression
  • Piano
  • Violent

• All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Church
  • Sound
  • Instruments

• Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Enough
  • Weak
  • Sensitive

• In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Respect
  • Musical
  • Instruments

• The child was born at a quarter to eight, emerging so easily that neither chloroform nor instruments were needed.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Child
  • Instruments
  • Emerging

• I remember when I first got my cello when I was 8 years old. I remember the room it was in and what the lacquer smelled like. Instruments have just been something very special to me.

  

  Michael Bacon
  • Remember
  • Something
  • Instruments

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