Quotes on Instruments

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. I have no one style. I play as I feel.

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

Writing is a political instrument.

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.

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

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.