Quotes About Instrument

we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

I should be grateful to the knife that's curing me for being so sharp.

The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

I love the French horn.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

I love the voice - it's the most perfect instrument ever heard. It's God given.

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

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.

There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

The short, fat fingers moved like dancing sausages across the strings;

Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Plain blunt people may be a little afraid of formal music. But I have lived to regret that failure. Every man [or woman], barbarian or civilised, should play at least one musical instrument. And have a trade: cobbling or carpentry or whatever.

On the whole, sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections to it, would, with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.

I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.

I used to play the French horn.

My equally peerless memory allows as to how she included you in that base canard." "Would that be a musical instrument? Might we find it in the orchestra pit? What kind of musician plays the bass canard?

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world.