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The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
— Howard Shore
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
— E. M. Forster
When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.
— Eknath Easwaran
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
— Joseph Campbell
The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
— Claudia Rankine
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.
— James Agee
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
— Dante Alighieri
Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
— Thomas Sydenham
Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
— Christine McVie
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
— Aldous Huxley
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
— Miroslav Vitous
Make me an instrument of thy peace.
— Francis Of Assisi
Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
— Robert Bresson
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
— Pablo Picasso
It was a knife of an idea, a cruel instrument of sacrifice, but also one of great beauty, silvery, curved, dancing with light.
— Peter Carey
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
— John Cage
I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.
— Don DeLillo
All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.
— Charles Petzold
Common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
— Neil Young
I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message..
— Michael Jackson
Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly.
— Roseanne Barr
It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.
— Matt Nathanson
Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.
— Narendra Modi
Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.
— Stephen Ambrose
Love is not a mere sentiment but an instrument of ability.
— Debasish Mridha
I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
— Tasha Smith
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
— Isaac Barrow
Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
— Lykke Li
The heart is the instrument of love it refutes lies and embrace love
— Marcelle Hinkson
Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful.
— Nirmala Srivastava
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
— Robert Gould Shaw
Charkha is an instrument of service.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.
— Leonard Jacobson
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
— Mother Teresa
It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.
— Dalai Lama
The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The banjo is such a happy instrumentyou can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. — Steve Martin
Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.
— Rachael Yamagata
It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello ... there are endless possibilities.
— Stjepan Hauser
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
— Katherine Anne Porter
In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever tried to think.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Pino was seized by something much more compelling and primal, as if Anna were not human but a spirit, a melody, a perfect instrument of love.
— Mark T. Sullivan
The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.
— Milton Friedman
Playing an instrument is its own reward.Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. — Peter James West
Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
— Catherine Deneuve
I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.
— George Washington
Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
— Alain De Botton
Hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.
— Billy Graham
The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.
— Dayananda Saraswati
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
The ukulele is the instrument of peace,
— Jake Shimabukuro
The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.
— John Fogerty
The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
— Pete Seeger
'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
— John Dryden
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
— Sappho
The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.
— George Orwell
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
— John Adams
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
— Charles De Gaulle
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
— Marianne Williamson
The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
— Luigi Pirandello
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.
— Franz Schubert
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.
— Daniel Barenboim
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.
— Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
God's Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.
— Mark Dever
God's church is the instrument for his prophesy
— Sunday Adelaja
Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock
— Nick Mason
I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.
— Henry David Thoreau
I must play the instrument I've got.
— Saul Bellow
Hershey was a source of pride for the townspeople of Smiths Falls, and was the instrument that put food on many tables.
— Arlene Stafford-Wilson
Literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
— Cynthia Ozick
Everybody is someone else's instrument.
— Michael Wolf
