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Quotes About Organ

Jimmy laughed. The thing was a computer terminal, he said. It could talk. And not in a synth-voice, but with a beautiful arrangement of gears and miniature organ pipes. It was a baroque thing for anyone to have constructed, a perverse thing, because synth-voice chips cost next to nothing.
~ William Gibson
Hope is always good." He looked me in the face grinning, full of faith in me and in life. "You know, doctors always say the liver is the only organ that can regenerate itself. But they're wrong, Leslie. The heart can, too. Promise me you'll keep hoping.
~ Leslie Morgan Steiner
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
~ lewis c s v
There are things about the Jewish religion that I carry with me to this day. Chief among them is Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, as it's so happily called. It had a profound effect on my innocent young mind. The service opens with the organ playing "Kol Nidre," one of the spookiest pieces of music ever written. You hear it and literally are surprised bats and shit aren't flying around.
~ Lewis Niles Black
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Nasil and Owen transport organs for transplant these days—and deliver takeout. I hope they don't get those mixed up.
~ Jasper Fforde
For a few moments we sat silent, then: 'So just you take care, what you think is the heart might well be another organ.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Whether at work, home or school, everybody carries their brain around them, and if the organ suffers from a disorder, we carry the disorder around with us too.
~ John Medina
I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.
~ Emir Kusturica
No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.
~ Joe Slovo
Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but an organ and a saxophone.
~ Dave Clark
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.
~ Eric Kandel
My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.
~ Hank Williams
There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.
~ Francis Arinze
A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.
~ Wes Montgomery
I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.
~ Paul Shaffer
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!
~ Rick Wakeman
I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.
~ Ray Stevens
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
~ Plotinus
The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
~ Patrick Soon-Shiong
I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.
~ Zaytoven
I used to think God only liked organ music.
~ Dion DiMucci
A lot of people simply don't know about the ability to be a living donor. All of us grew up on the idea that you only got organ donations from a dead person that had checked a box on a driver's license.
~ Ed Henry