Top 1200 Instrument Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I can do a gig without an instrument

The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole man, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth and helps man to achieve that end to which all others must be subservient, the service and praise of his Creator.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

The piano is such a timeless instrument.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Charkha is an instrument of service.

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.

Voice is the first instrument.

Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.

My body is an instrument for me to use.

As an actor, your body is an instrument.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

The future is a monotonous instrument

Everybody is someone else's instrument.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

We are but as the instrument of Heaven.

Prayer is the instrument of miracles.

The banjo am the instrument for me.

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything.

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. When you think about the fact that the instrument has changed significantly since he wrote for it and his music still really works, it's brilliant. He was definitely ahead of his time. There's something so satisfying about his music. It's beautifully organized and emotional at the same time. I find it highly exciting.

When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you have completely mastered the instrument, the music plays for you. But you still have to keep practicing. And it takes an awful lot of practice. Nonetheless, if you diligently practice, hours and hours and hours and hours, you probably won't get it. You'll probably just end up hurting your fingers.

The main thing is the ability to control your instrument, which, in the actor, is yourself. Look the way you want the character to look. Sound the way you want the character to sound. Once you've trained the instrument to do what you want, you're in control, and you're free.

I can't remember when I didn't have an instrument around.

I treat my vocals as an instrument.

Voice is my instrument.

The piano is the instrument I can play the most.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

I can do a gig without an instrument.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

The body is the instrument of the soul.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

You've got to learn your instrument.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

Samples are kind of my instrument of choice.

This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesian­ - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist." It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist."

Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That`s exactly the meaning of the word `ecstasy`: to stand out. To stand out of the mind makes you ecstatic, brings bliss to you. And great intelligence is released. When you are identified with the mind you cannot be very intelligent because you become identified with an instrument, you become confined by the instrument and its limitations. And you are unlimited - you are consciousness.

The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.

I use my voice as an instrument.

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

If you're learning a new instrument, have fun.

My voice is an instrument.

Drums were my first instrument.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Writing is a political instrument.

Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak!

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played. You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out. You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments. All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation.

Strive always to improve the instrument.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.