Instruments Quotes - Page 2

• The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Action, Unconscious

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• Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.

  Bryan Procter

  Grief, Band, Literature

  Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.218

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• Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

  Alan Jackson

  Age, Towns, My Family

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• Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

  Marc Ribot

  One Direction, Europe, Sound

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• I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

  Ikue Mori

  Thinking, Play, Buttons

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• I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

  Stan Getz

  Sound, Use, Bass

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• Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

  Gavin Bryars

  Transition

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• You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.

  Bernie Worrell

  Money, Sex

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• For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.

  Albert Claude

  Vision, Size, Moments

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• I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  Edgard Varese

  Dream, Sound, World

  Edgard Varèse lecture, edited by Chou Wen-Chung, published in: "391", Nr. 5. June 17, 1917, translated by Louise Varèse; Quoted in: "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music: A Continuing Symposium", 1996.

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• My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

  Cassandra Wilson

  Mother, Father, Order

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• It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.

  Cassandra Clare

  Toilets, Cups, Bones

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Giving Up, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1371, Simon and Schuster

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• If you wanted to rip my clothes off, you should have asked." (Jace Wayland)

  Cassandra Clare

  Rip, Should Have, Clothes

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• From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

  Cassandra Clare

  Want, Saws, Firsts

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• As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.

  Cassandra Clare

  Giving Up, Loving You, Stronger

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Glass”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

  Tommy Shaw

  Guitar, Vintage, Play

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• If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

  Jaron Lanier

  Musical, Mind, Body

  "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

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• Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

  Lionel Hampton

  New Day, Trying, Looks

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• Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

  Alexis Carrel

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Science

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• The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

  Herb Alpert

  Singing, Lyrical, Trumpets

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• The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
  Make instruments to plague us.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Full Circle, Vices

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [172]

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• Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Play, Singing, Important

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• The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.

  Richard Strauss

  Beautiful, Play, Voice

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