Instrument Quotes - page 2

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. (W. C. Handy)
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name Almighty God But man is thy most awful instrument In working out a pure intent. View quote
William Wordsworth
The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. View quote
Herbert Read
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. View quote
Francis of Assisi
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
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. View quote
Michael Ende
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects. (Andrew Johnson)
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. View quote
May Sarton
If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either. View quote
Andy Summers
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much. View quote
Billy Sheehan
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time. View quote
Cecilia Bartoli
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. View quote
Christine McVie
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. View quote
Giorgio Moroder
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional. (Klaus Schulze)
I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument. View quote
Mike Figgis
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. View quote
Miroslav Vitous
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. View quote
Nick Rahall
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. View quote
Oscar Peterson