Instrument Quotes
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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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People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.
Esperanza Spalding
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I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.
Ray McKinnon
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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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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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There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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Everybody is someone else's instrument.
Michael Wolf
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I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.
Brandy Clark
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Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
Mother Teresa
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The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.
Agnes Strickland
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O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
Johannes Kepler
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The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
Gerald Massey
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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
Plato
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Just speaking from growing up in the projects, it was hard for me to take dance classes or voice classes because I didn't have money. Or learn an instrument because I didn't have the money to buy one.
Anthony Ramos
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Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.
Emmet Gowin
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That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.
Brandon Flowers The Killers
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He had no reason to want to avenge Horn, and for Applethorpe no vengeance would ever be enough. It was natural for him to want to hurt the man who had been the instrument of his first adult grief; natural, but not right.
Ellen Kushner
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You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.
Slash Guns N' Roses
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I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you know? I wasn't thinking about that. I just think that's in my body now. Dancers don't think about their legs moving one way and their arms moving another. Over time, you incorporate that into your instrument.
Esperanza Spalding
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Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.
Ryan Phillippe
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My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument.
George H. Smith
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As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
Nick Rahall
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Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.
Steve Swallow