Instrument Quotes

Their musical ability and performance seems to derive from the past collective experience and presents itself in the individual unconscious today. Through it we tap into something eternal and it is apparent even in how they approach their playing. Perhaps we relate to it because, of any other instrument, the cello has a range that matches the human voice.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear" (p.251).

Malcolm Gladwell

A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. It is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, and who no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of being a martyr.

T.S Eliot

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

Abraham Verghese

Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.

Georg Ernst Stahl

A feather when viewed separately may seem like only a feather,But when seen through the eyes of truth it is a sacred instrument that lifts a bird in flight.

Molly Friedenfeld

A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one.

Jeffrey Fry

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

The study of man is the study of his extensions.

Edward T. Hall

It is characteristic of all extension systems to be treated as distinct and separate from the user and to take on an identity of their own. Religions, philosophies, literature, and art illustrate this. After a time, the extended system accretes to itself a past and a history as well as a body of knowledge and skills that can be learned. Such systems can be studied and appreciated as entities in themselves.

Edward T. Hall

From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man's basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill afford cultural illiteracy.

Edward T. Hall

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.

William Kingdon Clifford

i have a body and I am grateful, as I find it to be a very useful instrument for expressing love, strength, flexibility, gracebut, I am not my body...

Kate Mullane Robertson

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

Robert A. Rice Jr.

Believe in God our Eternal Father, He who is greatest of all, who stands ever ready to help us and who has the power to do so. Believe in Jesus Christ, the Savior and the Redeemer of mankind, the worker of miracles, the greatest who ever walked the earth, the intercessor with our Father. Believe in the power of the Holy Ghost to lead, to inspire, to comfort, to protect. Believe in the Prophet Joseph, as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty in ushering in this the dispensation of the fullness of times.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The brain is a harmonic instrument. It vibrates to the same wavelength.

Toba Beta

The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light—grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.

Eleanor Catton

The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of themselves.

Eleanor Catton

First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.

Charlie Parker

The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

Deke Sharon

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Johann Sebastian Bach

The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments

Charles-Auguste de Beriot

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

Suzy Kassem

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe.

Suzy Kassem

Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities.

Dada Bhagwan

In this life, you only need to do this much: You must know that the other person is instrument (nimit, in bringing you the results of your own karmas) so you must remain silent. Do not let the mind spoil in the slightest. If it does, then ask for forgiveness: ‘Dear Instrument! You are simply an instrument. I ask for forgiveness for spoiling my mind.’ You have to do only this much! That is the effort [purusharth]!

Dada Bhagwan

Everyone is born with the nimit (karmic evidentiary instruments). I too, am born with nimit. With this body, so and so number of tasks [work] will be done by him, such is the nimit!

Dada Bhagwan

You can remain faultless only when you constantly remain as a nimit [instrument, one of the doer and not the whole and sole doer] and remain in the intent of being an instrument [intent that I am one of the doer of many scientific circumstantial evidences]

Dada Bhagwan

Holding you in my arms always feels like holding a musical instrument that I love the most, moving my fingers on your skin feels like playing it. And my soul closes its eyes and starts singing along with the music I start creating.

Akshay Vasu

When the heart is beautiful, its light shines though the eyes, vocal tones and actions of its owner.

Suzy Kassem

Be an instrument of redemption, there are still unreached people

Sunday Adelaja

The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God

Sunday Adelaja

Always yearn to be an instrument for the Kingdom

Sunday Adelaja

Work is created to be an instrument through which you release your potential

Sunday Adelaja

Work is an instrument through which you carry out your life mandate

Sunday Adelaja

Work is an instrument through which you bring yourself to fulfillment

Sunday Adelaja

It is in the time of peace that the instruments of war are built.

Paul Bamikole

The only instrument through which time could be converted to yield greatness is the instrumentality of work.

Sunday Adelaja

Work is created to be an instrument through which you release your potential

Sunday Adelaja

Work is an instrument through which you carry out your life mandate

Sunday Adelaja

Work is an instrument through which you bring yourself to fulfillment

Sunday Adelaja

It is in the time of peace that the instruments of war are built.

Paul Bamikole

The only instrument through which time could be converted to yield greatness is the instrumentality of work.

Sunday Adelaja

The instrument through which time is converted is called work.

Sunday Adelaja

The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.

Criss Jami

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