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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

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

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument. — Henry Miller

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music. — Rene Auberjonois

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study. — Alma Gluck

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. — Miroslav Vitous

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. — Herb Alpert

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union. — Gerhard Schroder

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. — Pablo Picasso

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. — Bruce Jackson

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

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

If the force of arms is considered the only means of authority, it is not an auspicious instrument. — Lao-Tzu

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change. — Jennifer Beals

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

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion. — Richard Baxter

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. — Alan Kay

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

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss. — Katy Lederer

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

Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert. — Stephen Ambrose

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory. — Laura Mvula

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. — Saadi

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. — Steve Martin

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune. — Steve Vai

The heart is the instrument of love it refutes lies and embrace love — Marcelle Hinkson

Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from — John C. Wright

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps. — Maggie Stiefvater

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY — John Henrik Clarke

The dove signifies the dove and the guitar signifies a musical instrument called the guitar. — Pablo Neruda

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto. — Donald Tusk

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. — Simon Bolivar

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world. — Simone De Beauvoir

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

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz

The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief. — George Orwell

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin. — Itzhak Perlman

Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you. Instrument, — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

It was as if my body were his instrument and he learned to play it so perfectly that the melody vibrated within my very soul — Mia Sheridan

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play. — Charlie Parker

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. — Thomas Jefferson

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. — Eliot Spitzer

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all. — Arvo Part

We are but as the instrument of heaven. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across. — Rosemary Clooney

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. — Richard Thompson

You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets. — Johnny Borrell

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really. — Patrick Wolf

Mistasinon stood as the music of life flowed around him, the instrument of his agency muted. — F.D. Lee

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

God's church is the instrument for his prophesy — Sunday Adelaja

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 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

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

The ukulele is the instrument of peace, — Jake Shimabukuro

I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument. — Tasha Smith

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

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

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

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

I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence. — George Washington

Hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein. — Billy Graham

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice. — Mstislav Rostropovich

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

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. — Isaac Barrow

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice. — Dayananda Saraswati

Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful. — Nirmala Srivastava

In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression. — Leonard Jacobson

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

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put. — Dalai Lama

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

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization. — Milton Friedman

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

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

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

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

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics. — John Fogerty