Quotes About Instrument

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

There's force-feeding people synthesised music, then there's a skill in technically being able to play an instrument, even if that is some electronic pad.

If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.

Using modern guitar techniques and modern methods on an early instrument is not a very clever thing to do, because it is the authentic spirit of the instrument that should dictate the quality and characteristic of the sound.

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really.

I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be able to do that, but I always wanted to play an instrument of some sort.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.

They like the tax because they believe, correctly, that it will stimulate much needed savings and investment. But it's an even better policy instrument than they think.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

It is my desire I desire, and the loved being is no more than its tool.

bradawl. It was just a blunt steel spike set into a handle.

But nobody had been interested in inert and prosaic things like crowbars.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.

Don't ever underestimate who or what He'll use to get something done. But the choice to believe that is always yours to make.

not let sin control the way you live;* do not give in to sinful desires. 13Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. 14Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God's grace.

Control of the future is actually a (vain) attempt to control people, with the future as our instrument.

And so we should define a tool in this way: something that is not part of a man's body which makes something that the man wants to do possible or easier.

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.