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Instruments Quotes - Page 5

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Peter De Vries
Tubas, Instruments

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Paul Klee
Hands, Ripe Fruit, Instruments
Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.387, Univ of California Press

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

Neville Marriner
Symphony, Instruments, Late

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Mike Figgis
Musical, Cameras, Instruments

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

Lenny Kravitz
Play, Able, Instruments

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

Kathryn Hulme
Awareness, Instruments, Loses
Kathryn Hulme (1956). “The Nun's Story”, Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

Joe Bob Briggs
World, Dictator, Instruments

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Isaac Barrow
Instruments, Contempt, Dues
Isaac Barrow (1830). “The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.354

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

Gavin Bryars
Transition, Instruments

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

Eknath Easwaran
Mind, Instruments, Stills

If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.

E-40
Play, Piano, Instruments
Source: allhiphop.com

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Dean Acheson
Cooperation, Instruments, United Nations
Dean Acheson (1950). “Strengthening the Forces of Freedom: Selected Speeches and Statements of Secretary of State Acheson, February 1949 - April 1950 [and Supplement May-June 1950].”

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

Chad Smith
Littles, Instruments

You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.

Bernie Worrell
Money, Sex, Instruments

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Anais Nin
Instruments, Myth

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

Alain de Botton
Memories, Anticipation, Instruments

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

William Shakespeare
Play, Important Hamlet, Instruments
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [393]

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

Walt Whitman
Music, Baritones, Instruments
Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.90, NYU Press

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

Tod Machover
Simple, Piano, Instruments

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

Tenzin Palmo
Sports, Effort, Instruments

We need to play each others instruments.

Steven Johnson
Play, Needs, Instruments

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

Steve Vai
Tunes, Miserable, Instruments
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

Steve Vai
Guitar, World, Instruments

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

Steve Lacy
Use, Instruments, Justify

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

Rosemary Clooney
Able, Instruments

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