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Lord God ... use me as Your instrument
but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all. — Martin Luther

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. — Mstislav Rostropovich

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. — Nicolas Cage

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

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff. — Nikki Jean

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body. — Juliet Marillier

I use my voice as an instrument. — Enya

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old. — Chuck Brown

The true instrument is that, with the help of which, the egoism and my-ness goes away. — Dada Bhagwan

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with. — Joanna Newsom

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well. — Justin Bieber

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. — Alanis Morissette

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano. — Christian Louboutin

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

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things. — Ben Vereen

Where, My Lord, is music bred - upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man. — Karen Blixen

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar, — Brandy Clark

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak. — Peace Pilgrim

I'm the only person in my entire extended family that plays an instrument or sings, really. Which is kind of weird. I don't know where I got it from. — Ryan Lewis

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me. — Billy Sheehan

I regret my lack of options. I regret being painted into a corner and having that be the only instrument to get me from point A to point B. — T.I.

My body is an instrument for me to use. — Emmanuelle Beart

I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views. — Wilhelm II

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well. — Don Henley

If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me. — Drew Barrymore

My first instrument was a little blue ukele. — Billy Ocean

You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. — Abraham Verghese

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument. — Midge Ure

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician. — Ryan Phillippe

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin. — Andrew Bird

Voice is my instrument. — Debra Wilson

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary. — Tom Waits

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. — Rabindranath Tagore

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves. — Patrick Stump

Drums were my first instrument. — Dick Dale

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. — Bill Kreutzmann

I am the instrument of my own destruction. — Veronica Roth

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me. — Rafal Blechacz

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. — William Christopher Handy

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. — Margaret Atwood

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument. — Marcello Giordani

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. — Jay London

The piano is kind of my second instrument. — Bill Bruford

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. — Pat Conroy

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles. — Nat Wolff

My voice is an instrument. — David Coverdale

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color. — Theophilus London

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

Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it. — Paul Horn

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument. — Trevor Rabin

If you're God's instrument, Owen," I said, "how come you need my help to stuff a basketball? — John Irving

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! — Dev Hynes

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument. — Mike Figgis

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic. — Scott Michael Foster

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

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill. — Cam Newton

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend. — Ahmad Jamal

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

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

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 Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings. — Daniel Barenboim

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

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

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

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. — Sappho

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. — Hunter Hayes

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument. — Pat Metheny

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument. — McCoy Tyner

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played. — Mick Taylor

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach. — Chino Moreno

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself. — Carl Sandburg

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music. — T-Pain

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. — Bobby McFerrin

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it. — Ed Asner

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I cam to sing remains unsung.
Rabindranath Tagore — Christina Carson

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

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative. — Bobby McFerrin

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. — Fred Allen

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.' — Yoko Ono

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school. — Don Cornelius

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer. — Zooey Deschanel

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12. — Dave Grohl