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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

And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time. — Will Durant

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

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making. — David Toop

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. — John Cage

I use my voice as an instrument. — Enya

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

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it
just don't get lost in it. — Ram Dass

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place. — Steven Adler

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind. — Taylor Swift

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. — Michala Petri

I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message.. — Michael Jackson

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. — Ambrose Bierce

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years. — Feist

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

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

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

You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument. — Jeff Foxworthy

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 instrument
you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. — Steve Martin

In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational. — Pedro Reyes

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you. — Alan Watts

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

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world. — Steve Vai

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

My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art. — E.L. James

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

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument. — Elvis Costello

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

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass. — Billy Sheehan

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

Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument. — Jerry Harrison

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

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike. — Conor Oberst

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment. — Marianne Williamson

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred — C.S. Lewis

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

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids. — Stefan Banach

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. — Wynton Marsalis

I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs. — Jackie Mason