Top 1200 Instruments Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

BlackBerrys are divine instruments.

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

Gamelan instruments are exotic and mysterious.

Most of my instruments are handmade.

I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well.

I've read the 'Mortal Instruments' series; I was obsessed with those.

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

One interesting thing - I play bass and guitar and stuff like that. I know those instruments really well. But I don't know how to play clarinet or trombone or any of these other instruments. I don't actually know how to play ukulele even though I've played it a lot in the past. Because of the weird tuning it's not exactly like a guitar. That's one of the reasons I like that instrument - it makes for surprises. It's not so predictable as the bass or the guitar is for me.

Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

There's so much fun you can have with your instruments that no one ever taught you.

We play the instruments we love.

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

I play instruments and stuff, but I can't rap or anything like that.

I write on all instruments.

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments.

I trust microphones, speakers and recordings less and less, and no longer buy into the idea that I can recreate at home, or in my earphones, the experience of hearing live acoustic instruments. The orchestra is already a set of speakers that react differently to each player, each room and each concert - it's that high level of uncertainly and unrepeatability that I like. The music is just soaked into the walls of a room straight from the instruments - and it's a one-off deal. The alternative - left speaker, right speaker - is kind of a compromise.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

I think our songwriting has evolved. We can show that we have continued to branch out and do different stuff and incorporate different instruments. When it comes to writing, I think that we have pushed the envelope. We can do whatever we want to try - a longer song or a shorter song, some different instruments, some piano, an intro with just vocals, something that's scathing. Whatever. However we feel the song should go, that's what we will do. With that mindset, I think it's made us better writers.

Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically

I am jealous of people who can play instruments.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

I play no instruments.

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

I play a bunch of instruments.

The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

There are a whole bunch of instruments I'd like to build.

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

If I were to travel with all my instruments, I would need a truck.

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.

I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think regular touring has forced me to play the guitar more than anything else, which is why I'm probably most confident playing that. And whist I'd be lost if I couldn't play it too, I dislike the totemic worship of the thing... magazines, collectors, and so on. I enjoy struggling with instruments I can't really play.

I use all types of instruments, really depending on the film. Instrument choices are very much tied to lighting, colors, art direction, as well as the narrative elements. I have a great collection of vintage synths, and of course I do like to write for acoustic instruments. I find the depth and intricacy of sound and emotion you can get with acoustic ensembles extremely versatile and effective in the overall sound environment. Also, the human aspect of performance is such an important part of the music score to character connection.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

We are all but instruments of God.

I'm big on simplicity. I'm not too much on all the extra instruments.

We need to play each others instruments.

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

The violin - that most human of all instruments.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments of it to God.

Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

When I'm not boxing, I play instruments.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.