Instrument Quotes
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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
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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.
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The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
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Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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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.
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But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
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Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
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I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.
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I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager.
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Although my first instrument was actually the violin, I prefer the piano as my main instrument. I love harpsichord and church organ and, of course, I love all synthesizers, analog and digital, as well as all sorts of percussion instruments, in addition to my beloved Alpine Horn and trumpet. And there's nothing like a Hammond organ and a real Moog synthesizer, or even a real Oberheim. When I played the mellotron, I had special effects tapes of all my albums made and was "playing" them through live concerts or different recordings like "on cue" analog samplers. I liked that part of playing them too, because they provided some very original punctuations in the music.
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An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.
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A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.
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Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
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Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
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I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
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A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
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To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.
