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Quotes About Instrument

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.
~ Tod Machover
As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
~ John Milton
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
~ Steve Lacy
The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.
~ John McLaughlin
My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.
~ Son Lux
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
~ Thomas Sydenham
An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
~ William Petty
Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.
~ Thomas Overbury
The ukulele is the instrument of peace.
~ Jake Shimabukuro
I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
~ Peace Pilgrim
CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
~ Ambrose Bierce
My mind is an instrument of peaceI am the peaceMy heart sing the song of peaceMy mind dances with peaceI laugh with peaceMy soul is longing for peaceMy spirit is the source of peace.
~ Debasish Mridha
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.
~ Philip Larkin
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
~ Quentin Crisp
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
~ Mike Pence
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
~ Dante Alighieri
The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.
~ Plato
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
~ Willa Sibert Cather
Every accessory, every instrument of usefulness, the church has now in such a degree and of such excellence as was never known in any other age; and we want but a supreme and glorious baptism of fire to exhibit to the world such a spectacle as would raise ten thousand hallelujahs to the glory of our King.
~ William Arthur
Nay,--conduct hath the loudest tongue. The voice Is but an instrument on which the priest May play what tune he pleases. In the deed, The unequivocal authentic deed, We find sound argument, and read the heart.
~ William Cowper
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~ William D. Lutz
The gospel preached is the instrument which God useth for the effecting of it. 'I am not ashamed,' saith the apostle, 'of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation,' Rom. 1:16. It is the chariot wherein the Spirit rides victoriously when he makes his entrance into the hearts of man—called therefore 'the ministration of the Spirit,' II Cor. 3:8.
~ William Gurnall