Instrument Quotes
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
Charlie Parker
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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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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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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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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Create good habits away from your instrument; use strangeness.
Arnold Jacobs
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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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Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
Benedict of Nursia
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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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There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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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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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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I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
Trevor Rabin Cinema
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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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Will is an instrument of power.
Andre Suares
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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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The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.
Agnes Strickland
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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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In the end, I didn't think I was good enough to use sax as a stage performer to get where I wanted, and thank God I chose my voice as my instrument instead. You need to be honest with yourself, and I was.
Engelbert Humperdinck