Quotes About Instrument

Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.

I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.

We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up with was the cello. It has a big range. It can play really low. It can play high. And it has a dark sound, and 'Game Of Thrones' is obviously - it's a dark show, and the cello became the featured instrument.

The only way you can get Scotty Moore's tone is with a big hollowbody guitar.

With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it sing.

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

A professional's racket is such a personal thing, and it's the tool of your trade.

My body is my work tool, right?

I have a thing for tools.

The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself.

I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.

I'm usually torn by, 'What's the role of government to cure injustice?' Families, churches, and schools can be more of an instrument of change.

The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

government is but an instrument of the people, its powers forever subordinate to their rights as human beings.

The German Reich had to cease to be a state in order to become fully an instrument of conquest.

What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children the myth of redemptive violence, the myth that violence can be an instrument for good.

Violence is often the instrument of those who are impatient, those who lack imagination, those who cannot wait on justice or freedom or redemption.

If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!