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Instruments Quotes - Page 7

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Bill Bruford
Piano, Kind, Instruments

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

Ben Nicholson
Men, Agents, Instruments

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

Anatoly Chubais
Kind, Instruments

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

Alexander Pope
Instruments, Ill, Mischief

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.

Agnes Strickland
Printing, Instruments, Reformation
Agnes Strickland (1853). “Memoirs of the Queens of Henry VIII., and His Mother, Elizabeth of York”, p.8

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Adolph Zukor
Smart, Television, Instruments

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

Abel Korzeniowski
Trying, Use, Instruments
"Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

Tom Waits
Writing, Bees, Instruments
"Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2011.

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.

Son Lux
Play, Creating, Instruments
"Son Lux Lights Up". Interview with Frank Valish, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 4, 2013.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

Sigmund Freud
Microscopes, Should, Instruments

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

Rudolf Steiner
Knowledge Of God, Instruments
Rudolf Steiner (2003). “Religion: An Introductory Reader”, p.43, Rudolf Steiner Press

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Radhanath Swami
Greatness, Hands, Instruments

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Paul Gauguin
Tone, Painting, Instruments

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

Karl Marx
Toil, Beast, Instruments
Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Joseph Joubert
Doe, Instruments, Transport
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.

Isabel Allende
Sex, Love Is, Instruments

The future is a monotonous instrument

Francis Picabia
Instruments, Monotonous
Francis Picabia (2007). “I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation”, Mit Press

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

Evan Esar
Language, Sometimes, Instruments

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

Elizabeth Bowen
People, Youth, Instruments
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

David Toop
Ideas, Anthology, Instruments
Source: thequietus.com

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

Christian McKay
Jealous, Instruments, Cellists

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.

Wayne Dyer
Giving, Instruments

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

Umberto Eco
Instruments, Thrown
Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

Thomas Overbury
Art, Men, Instruments
Thomas Sackville Dorset (Earl of), Sir Thomas Overbury (1760). “Prolusions; or, Select pieces of antient poetry,--compil'd with great care from their several originals: and offer'd to the publick as specimens of the integrity that should be found in the editions of worthy authors, in three parts ... with a preface ...”, p.64

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

Susanne Katherina Langer
Common Sense, Instruments, Tricky

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