Quotes About Instrument

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife.

Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife. Nonmusicians don't understand. An instrument is like a companion and a lover.

Pedirle a un músico que te deje coger su instrumento es como pedirle a un hombre que te deje besar a su esposa. Eso es algo que solo entiendes si eres músico. Un instrumento es como un compañero y una amante. Los desconocidos suelen pedir a los músicos que les dejen coger sus instrumentos, y eso les fastidia mucho.

Estaba sentado, quieto como una estatua, y me dolían los dedos. Quería tocar, no escuchar. «Quería» no es un verbo suficientemente intenso. Me moría de ganas de tocar. No me enorgullezco de haberme planteado robarle el laúd y marcharme de allí aprovechando la oscuridad de la noche.

Pedirle a un músico que deje de coger su instrumento es como pedirle a un hombre que deje de besar a su esposa.

Sólo quería dejar bien sentado que el contrabajo es el instrumento central de la orquesta. En el fondo lo sabe todo el mundo, sólo que nadie lo confiesa abiertamente

Der Kontrabaß ist das scheußlichste, plumpeste, uneleganteste Instrument, das je erfunden wurde. Ein Waldschrat von Instrument.

He who lives for an encounter with the unseen becomes the instrument of the seen.

While thus the Devil, having profited by experience, always insists upon having his rights insured by an unequivocal instrument (which in later centuries is signed with blood); he, in his turn, is fearlessly trusted to keep his promise, and this is a fact which must be mentioned to his honor, for although he is said to be a liar from the beginning, not one case is known, in all devil-lore in which the Devil attempts to cheat his stipulators. Thus

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

How many believers really live a lifestyle that results from believing that God has graced them to be not just recipients of the work of his kingdom but instruments of the work of the kingdom as well? When you believe this, you live with a constant ministry mentality that results in an everyday ministry lifestyle.

God is not satisfied with you being a witness to his work of grace. He's called you to be an instrument of that grace to others.

I fight because that is what I was made to do and the Empire is the instrument through which I realize my purpose. The Empire is war made manifest. That is why it is perfect.

Cultural invasion is on the one hand an instrument of domination, and on the other, the result of domination. Thus, cultural action of a dominating character (like other forms of antidialogical action), in addition to being deliberate and planned, is in another sense simply a product of oppressive reality.

Di a los ojos que su música concierten con la voz; porque es forzoso que desdiga y que disuene tan destemplado instrumento, que ajustar y medir quiere la falsedad de quien dice,

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art

What's the difference between a novice airplane pilot and a veteran? Ask any expert and they'll tell you: A beginner relies on sight and gut feeling, while an experienced professional relies on instruments.

I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Doubt is God's instrument, will arrive in God's time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it—patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation takes time.

Doubt is sacred. Doubt is God's instrument, will arrive in God's time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it—patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation takes time.

“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.