Instrument Quotes
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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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exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.
Jack Straw
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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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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
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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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Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.
Eddie Harris
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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.
Parov Stelar
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Will is an instrument of power.
Andre Suares
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I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.
Ralph Stanley
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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.
Allen Grossman
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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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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Create good habits away from your instrument; use strangeness.
Arnold Jacobs
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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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When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.
Michael Ende
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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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I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
Trevor Rabin Cinema
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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 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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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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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
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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