Quotes About Instrument

Seminars, TV shows, documentaries, always spreading Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I'm an instrument of this art more than a character myself.

My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.

The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

it is a perfect weapon

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do listen. I have a lot of songs I've wanted to re-record just because of how advanced technology is and the different instrument sounds that I'm more experienced with.

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

Where Christ's Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.

Our soul is an instrument of music if we choose to play it with love!

You, Sir, of all men whom I have known, are he whose body is the closest conjoined, and imbued, and identified, so to speak, with the spirit whereof it is the instrument.

A knife can be a weapon, but it can also be a surgical instrument.

the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

When I was about 9, my brother, who's six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn't say that it inspired me to pick up an instrument: it was more me being like, 'Well, if he's getting guitar lessons, then so am I. I'm not missing out,' type of thing.