Instrument Quotes

• Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Great
  • Why
  • Acting

• 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
  • Job
  • Together
  • Words

• Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more versatile than people realise it to be. It's a beautiful instrument, very rhythmic and melodic. You can do anything with it.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Instrument
  • Realise
  • Pop Music

• 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
  • Song
  • Guitar
  • Production

• Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

  

  Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Music
  • Musician
  • Instrument

• There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

  

  Penelope Leach
  • Experience
  • Instrument
  • Baby`s

• 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
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Soul

• I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Instrument
  • Agent
  • I See

• The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

  

  Edouard Vuillard
  • Painter
  • Instrument
  • Armchair

• The great advantage the telephone possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Advantage
  • Skill
  • Telephone

• I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Instrument
  • Drummers
  • Sidetracked

• He was Caesar and Pope in o­ne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.

  

  Benjamin Smith
  • Supports
  • Caesar
  • Bodyguard

• I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore, so sometimes I wish I could still play that; I think it's a great instrument, so maybe one of these days I'll pick it back up.

  

  Eric Hutchinson
  • Play
  • Instrument
  • Trumpet

• Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Instrument
  • Lord God
  • Wreck

• Drumming is my main thing but I’ve always been the type of person that I can pull a sound out of any instrument if I’m given a couple of minutes to figure it out.

  

  Tim Brennan Dropkick Murphys
  • Sound
  • Instrument
  • Drumming

• The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Instrument
  • Comfort Zone
  • Improvisation

• The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

  

  Deke Sharon Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Powerful
  • Creation
  • Method

• Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Right Way
  • Limbs

• All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Spirit
  • Living
  • Blunt

• I love that I can worship and express my love for Jesus through the instrument that God has put in my hands. That moment every night on tour when hundreds of people respond to the invitation of Jesus, makes it all worth while.

  

  Jihea Oh Hillsong United
  • Jesus
  • Instrument
  • Express

• My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Records

• Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.

  

  Grace Chatto
  • Pleasure
  • Playing
  • Instrument

• You know, if you use instrument, why, you have to stay on perfect time - timing. And if you do a cappella - I'm so bad, just wonder, you know, maybe I'll sing one verse this way and one verse another. And if you're doing it a capella, you don't have to keep any time. You can just go out as far as you want to with it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Wonder
  • Keep
  • Capella

• Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • End
  • Riches

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