Instrument Quotes
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It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
Karl Pearson
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
Waylon Jennings
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The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.
Abraham Lincoln
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
Walter Gropius
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
Abbey Lincoln
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Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.
Pat Metheny
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
Gabrielle Aplin
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The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.
Laura Marano
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I can do a gig without an instrument.
Gavin DeGraw
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
Ornette Coleman
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I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
Al Pacino
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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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When you learn how to play an instrument, you spend a lot of your time practicing, which keeps you occupied. Music passes your time. As you're going through life, it's something to enjoy. If you can be a part of it, that's even better.
Bobby Balderrama
Question Mark & the Mysterians
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Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
R. C. Sproul