Instrument Quotes
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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
George Bernard Shaw -
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
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Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.
Grace Chatto -
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
Richard Strauss -
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
Lester B. Pearson -
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 -
The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
Wilhelm von Humboldt -
...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.
Abraham Lincoln
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One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Create good habits away from your instrument; use strangeness.
Arnold Jacobs -
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
Charlie Parker -
exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.
Jack Straw -
For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.
Arleigh Burke
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We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.
Sigmund Freud -
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher -
There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.
Nancy Wilson Heart -
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
Humphry Davy -
We didn’t know how to play any instruments but we would write lyrics.
Junior H -
You have an unimaginable treasure trove of material that you can use and transform into new things. I play the computer; that’s my instrument. It’s not a question that would occur to me.
Parov Stelar
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During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was 'pilot error,' but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. As it had been and would be.
Ernest K. Gann -
Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?
Dave Mustaine Metallica -
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
George Gallup -
I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an instrument any other way than by myself.
Erik Hassle