Top 100 Quotes About Instruments

#1. This process was also used on beautiful daggers with bifurcated blades, which look ahead to the Old Kingdom forked instruments known as pesesh-kef used in the Opening of the Mouth funerary ceremony.

Ian Shaw

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#2. We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night ...

Andrea Gibson

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#3. Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

John Ortberg

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#4. Involuntarily, she stopped, jerked up her head, looked around her like a frightened woman. They weren't car horns: they were wind instruments

Stephen R. Donaldson

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#5. Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

Cassandra Clare

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#6. You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

Prince Philip

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#7. Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

John Lyly

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#8. Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

John Charles Polanyi

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#9. A whale can injure another whale with its sonar. A whale can speak to another whale across sixty miles of ocean. A whale is as intelligent as we are, just in a way we can't quite measure or understand. Because we're these incredibly blunt instruments.

Jeff VanderMeer

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#10. I saw with regret, (and all scientific men have shared this feeling) that whilst the number of accurate instruments was daily increasing, we were still ignorant

Alexander Von Humboldt

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#11. Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.

Brie Larson

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#12. Soldering iron, Max."
Tim cauterised the severed veins. Medical instruments were often just precision variations of the same tools handymen used.

Nick Cutter

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#13. It was a ridiculous question. Did I _love_ Char? Did I feel about Char the same way I feel about the Beatles, string instruments in pop songs, the way Little Anthony sang high notes, the way Jerry Lee Lewis played piano?

Leila Sales

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#14. I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

Daniel Defoe

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#15. I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

Amy Winehouse

Quotes About Instruments #25863
#16. I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums ... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

Lucas Grabeel

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#17. Words are powerful instruments. Handle them and your understanding level of new information will grow in a spectacular way.

Kim Kiyosaki

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#18. Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

Neville Marriner

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#19. I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

Jonny Greenwood

Quotes About Instruments #30857
#20. There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.

Robert Moog

Quotes About Instruments #33932
#21. The painter's instrument
is his armchair.

Edouard Vuillard

Quotes About Instruments #33948
#22. To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Edward Said

Quotes About Instruments #40946
#23. I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.

Kamasi Washington

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#24. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

Oscar Wilde

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#25. The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

Jacki Weaver

Quotes About Instruments #46778
#26. This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.

Mikey Way

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#27. A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

Eddie Van Halen

Quotes About Instruments #49968
#28. Jace is in love with the idea of dying, said Isabelle.

Cassandra Clare

Quotes About Instruments #50340
#29. If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.

Jools Holland

Quotes About Instruments #50396
#30. My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

Cassandra Clare

Quotes About Instruments #53196
#31. There are ways in which we're so alike. We're reckless. We don't think before we act. We'll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw

Cassandra Clare

Quotes About Instruments #53446
#32. This tune goes manly.
Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;
Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth
Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above
Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.
The night is long that never finds the day.
They exit.

William Shakespeare

Quotes About Instruments #57546
#33. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

John French Sloan

Quotes About Instruments #57973
#34. My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

Ethel Waters

Quotes About Instruments #58502
#35. Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.

Meghan Trainor

Quotes About Instruments #58860
#36. Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

Lenny Kravitz

Quotes About Instruments #62687
#37. Yech," said Simon.
"Don't 'yech' me. You're the one with the magical spit.

Cassandra Clare

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#38. Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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#39. Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Quotes About Instruments #70486
#40. The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you

Sunday Adelaja

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#41. The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home

James Madison

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#42. I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.

Z'EV

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

Stewart Copeland

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#44. A breeze lifted off the ocean and several hundred notes from the wind chimes tinkled like ice shaken in silver cups. They altered the mood of the forest the way an orchestra does a theater when it begins tuning up its instruments.

Pat Conroy

Quotes About Instruments #81402
#45. Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.

Alessandro Nivola

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#46. Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.

John Ashbery

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#47. After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

Michael Mandelbaum

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#48. Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds. Under certain emotional circumstances I can stand the spasms of a rich violin, but the concert piano and all wind instruments bore me in small doses and flay me in larger ones.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#49. I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

Sean Lennon

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#50. It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.

Cassandra Clare

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#51. They'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexul and Had Low Expectations.

Jace Herondale

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#52. Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.

William J. Seymour

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#53. After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

Tom T. Hall

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#54. I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

Action Bronson

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#55. I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

Elizabeth Swados

Quotes About Instruments #92287
#56. Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#57. Bass players have bigger instruments." Charlie's slow grin curled her toes and he added, "We also do it deeper.

Rachel Harris

Quotes About Instruments #93131
#58. I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.

Georg Solti

Quotes About Instruments #94359
#59. Why do you tell me you love me only when you're drunk or dreaming? she asked. I have awful timing, said Simon

Cassandra Clare

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#60. As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I'm a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.

Suzi Quatro

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#61. Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!

Caroline Corr

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#62. We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.

Albert Einstein

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#63. There is no pretending I love you and I will love you until you die. And if there is life after that, I will love you then.

Jace Wayland

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#64. I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

Alex Winston

Quotes About Instruments #113382
#65. So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

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#66. God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

Paul David Tripp

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#67. Our band had perfected the art of punk-rock camping, throwing a bunch of crap into the van with, like, an hour's notice and just driving out into the mountains, where we'd drink beer, burn food, jam on our instruments around the campfire, and sack out under the open sky.

Gayle Forman

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#68. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again.

William Shakespeare

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#69. Luckily, languages are like musical instruments: the more you know, the easier it is to pick up new ones.

Patrick Rothfuss

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#70. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

Edgard Varese

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#71. We shouldn't use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom

Sunday Adelaja

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#72. More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

John Darnielle

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#73. The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball ... I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

Frank Zappa

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#74. I love you too, he said. God, I love you, Isabelle.

Cassandra Clare

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#75. My soul is like a hidden orchestra; I do not know which instruments grind and play away inside of me, strings and harps, timbales and drums. I can only recognize myself as symphony.

Fernando Pessoa

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#76. Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks;

Anthony Doerr

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#77. The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

Tariq Ali

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#78. Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

Eicca Toppinen

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#79. I get the feeling you'd rather pine over someone you can never possibly be with than try being with someone you can.

Cassandra Clare

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#80. The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

Norman Cousins

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#81. The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence ... The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization.

Jacques Ellul

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#82. The Jedi shackle themselves in chains of obedience: obedience to the Jedi Council; obedience to their Masters; obedience to the Republic. Those who follow the light side even believe they must submit themselves to the Force. They are merely instruments of its will, slaves to a greater good.

Drew Karpyshyn

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#83. The children of God are His instruments on the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

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#84. Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions
these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term experience.

George Henry Lewes

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#85. You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Tony Blair

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#86. Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Walter Pater

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#87. My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.

Christopher Fowler

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#88. Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

Immanuel Kant

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#89. It is often idle to attempt to oppose ignorance and absurdity by such feeble instruments as truth and reason, and the wisest managers of mankind have generally been most successful when their plan has been to counteract one folly by means of the influence of another.

Jacob Abbot

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#90. Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley."
"Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.

Cassandra Clare

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#91. One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.

Bertrand Russell

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#92. The music was great for teaching about human nature. but I couldn't do any instruments or play anything. I like to sing. I'd rather sing than eat, but most people would rather hear me eat.

Kevin Fitzgerald

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#93. The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

Paul Weller

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#94. What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

Virginia Mae Axline

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#95. There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.

Mitch Albom

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#96. I believe the use of noise to make music will increase until we reach a
music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make
available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard.

John Cage

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#97. I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

John Darnielle

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#98. I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit.

Squarepusher

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#99. We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.

Billy Sheehan

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

Amandla Stenberg

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