Top 1200 Musical Instrument Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace.
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.
My musical tastes change every week.
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.
I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.
My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.
Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.
I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well.
This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.
I went to the University of Michigan and have a BFA in Musical Theatre.
I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.
The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.
I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
I'm usually torn by, 'What's the role of government to cure injustice?' Families, churches, and schools can be more of an instrument of change.
'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.
The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.
We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.
Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.
Bagpipes is a woodwind instrument, so you have to warm it up. But in a wrestling dressing room? You've got to be kidding me.
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.
The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.
Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.
I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
