Instrument Quotes
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
Robert Bolt
I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
Ruth St. Denis
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
Arnold Palmer
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
Miroslav Vitous
Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
Jackson Browne
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
Giorgio Moroder
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!
Luigi Pirandello
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
Lara St. John
Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
Catherine Deneuve
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
Stan Getz
Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.
Steve Vai
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Jon Bon Jovi
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Joshua Reynolds
So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
Ornette Coleman
Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.
Evelyn Glennie
Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.
Gerhard Schroder
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
George Benson
The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.
John Fogerty
The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee