Instrument Quotes
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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
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The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.
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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.
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Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.
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exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.
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Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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...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.
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When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
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Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?
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Behold, I send the demon I know to relieve your need, An imperfect player at the perfect instrument Who takes in hand The Regulator of the World To keep the splendor from destroying us.
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We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.
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There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.
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The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
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Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
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We didn’t know how to play any instruments but we would write lyrics.
