Instrument Quotes
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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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
Plato
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Ansel Adams -
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
Robin Trower Procol Harum -
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
Don Henley The Eagles -
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Edi Rama
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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
Immanuel Kant -
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.
Jacques Lacan -
I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.
Wilhelm II -
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.
Simon Bolivar -
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.
Vaclav Havel
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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.
Patrick Moraz The Moody Blues -
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.
Stan Getz -
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
Alan Rickman -
While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).
Sallust -
I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
Jean Renoir -
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.
Lord Byron
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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.
Sarah Bernhardt -
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Eliot Spitzer -
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones -
If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.
Will Sheff Okkervil River