Instrument Quotes
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My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee
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What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.
Simon Rattle
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Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
Bernard Berenson
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The kind of churches we played in, it wasn't about how good you could play your instrument, it was about how much you enjoyed playing your instrument.
Nathan Followill
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No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.
Michael Jackson
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Words should be employed as the means, not as the end: language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Joshua Reynolds
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I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else.
Catherine Deneuve
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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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I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message.
Michael Jackson
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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 played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing. Since then I have become His flute, and when He chooses He plays His music. The people give me credit for this music which, in reality, is not due to me, but to the Musician who plays his own instrument.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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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I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place where it can be appreciated, more than just taking someone's song and doing a 4-bar loop.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less.
Esperanza Spalding
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust
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We need to play each others instruments.
Steven Johnson