Instrument Quotes
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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.
Ralph Stanley
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Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
Charlie Parker
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We were trying to get a sound on an instrument and I said it should sound robotic and he said, ‘You mean humanesque?’ I thought it was a good word and used it for the title.
Jack Green T. Rex
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Create good habits away from your instrument; use strangeness.
Arnold Jacobs
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
Simone de Beauvoir
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We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.
Sigmund Freud
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Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
Benedict of Nursia
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Will is an instrument of power.
Andre Suares
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When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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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?
Dave Mustaine Metallica
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I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
Eugene McCarthy
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I think the basics can help you… practice, being good at your instrument, knowing how to play and interact with other musicians, play within your situation.
John DiTeodoro, Jr Britny Fox
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The real forces behind Bolshevism is Russia are Jewish forces, and Bolshevism is really an instrument in the hands of the Jews for the establishment of their future Messianic kingdom.
Denis Fahey
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Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
Humphry Davy
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I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
Trevor Rabin Cinema
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.
Socrates
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There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
Jonathan Nolan
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The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.
David Crowe
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I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on.
Nathan East
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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems which are neglected now. But the original givens of this science are the same for men and for women. Women simply have to steal the instrument; they don't have to break it, or try, a priori, to make of it something totally different. Steal it and use it for their own good.
Simone de Beauvoir