Instruments Quotes

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.

Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.

I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

The body is the instrument of the soul.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

The banjo am the instrument for me.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.