Instrument Quotes - page 28

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament. (Alanis Morissette)
On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement. View quote
James Blunt
Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit. View quote
Maria Montessori
The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome. View quote
George Sarton
The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only. View quote
George Sarton
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. View quote
Humphry Davy
A person not familiar with all of the special knowledge about a particular instrument should not try to draw too many conclusions from printed data. Such data typically contains certain assumptions about the equipment not necessarily known to outsiders. View quote
Jerry R. Ehman
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! View quote
Luigi Pirandello
I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook. View quote
Moby
We must make a start. We must renounce war as an instrument of policy.... Even as I speak to you I may be guilty of what some men call treason.... You young men should refuse to take up arms. Young women tear down the patriotic posters. And all of you - young and old - put away your flags. (Dorothy Day)
The things that are most important to me in such a project are perfectionism and truth. Truth of interpretation, truth of sound, truth of the instrument, truth of the hall, truth lastly of all. View quote
Burkard Schliessmann
On electronic music: "The source is electronic, but what you do with it is the same as with acoustic instruments. Sound is sound and vibration is vibration, whether from an electronic source or an acoustic instrument. View quote
Vangelis
On voice and music: "The voice, for me, is probably the best instrument, but, on the other hand, when a person sings words they immediately limit themselves to a certain category of people, to a particular dialect. View quote
Vangelis
Taxation must be used as an instrument of social policy, but if carried too far under the profit system, it may be an instrument of destruction rather than construction. View quote
Kirby Page
Yet in a relatively short creative life of twenty years or so, Chopin redrew the boundaries of Romantic music, and his self-imposed restriction to the 88 keys of the piano keyboard sublimated nothing less than the aesthetic essence of piano music. It was his total identification with the instrument which, in its radical regeneration of the lyric and the dramatic, fantasy and passion and their unique fusion, shaped a tonal language which united an aristocratic sense of style and formal Classical training and intuition with an ascetic rigor. Chopin's precisely marshaled trains of thought permitted no experiments, and so he did not ‘wander about' within his stylistic points of reference as Scriabin was to do. Chopin's works may seem light and improvisatory, but they are planned in meticulous details, exactly and well calculated. View quote
Burkard Schliessmann
If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play. View quote
Amy Winehouse
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument? View quote
Nigel Kennedy
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. View quote
Steve Martin
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. View quote
Edmund Burke
The great instrument of all these changes, and what infuses a peculiar venom into all of them, is party. It is of no consequence what the principles of any party, or what their pretensions, are; the spirit which actuates all parties is the same; the spirit of ambition, of self-interest, of oppression, and treachery. This spirit entirely reverses all the principles which a benevolent nature has erected within us; all honesty, all equal justice, and even the ties of natural society, the natural affections. (Edmund Burke)
To-day when we think of Empire we think of it primarily as an instrument of world peace. View quote
Stanley Baldwin
I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes. View quote
Brittany Murphy
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it. View quote
Jacques Lacan
Hegel's lack of charity toward the instrument metaphor is not arbitrary. It represents his disenchantment with the assumption that knowledge is power and that method is the means to this end. ... Descartes' conception of method, like Bacon's, is linked to this idea of knowledge as an instrument of power. ... The same could be said of Locke. Hegel can rightly claim that the instrument metaphor pervades the epistemological tradition he is seeking to transcend. View quote
Merold Westphal