Instruments Quotes

• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, God, Christian

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• Make me an instrument of thy peace.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational

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• The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

  Carlos Santana

  Peace, Powerful, Heart

  "Check Against Delivery". Remarks by Judith Guichon, OBC Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, ltgov.bc.ca. September 21, 2014.

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• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

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• A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

  Reggie Jackson

  Baseball, Swings, Littles

  Reggie Jackson, Mike Lupica (1985). “Reggie”, Ballantine Books

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

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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  Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

  May Sarton

  Life, Patience, Nature

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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• The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, History, Facts

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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

  David Byrne

  Couple, Labels, Chords

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• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Faith, Eye

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

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• The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

  Stan Getz

  Challenges, Body, Saxophone

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• Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories, Lying, Past

  "Selected Writings: 1927-1934".

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• Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Animal, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.70, 谷月社

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• Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Weather, Kind, Barometer

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  People, Leader, Auctions

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.353

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• Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Fall, Writing, Hands

  Diary entry for January/February 1918, No. 1104. "The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918", p. 387, 1968.

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• You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

  Steve Lacy

  Use, Justify

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• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

  Walter Lippmann

  Progress, Use, Movement

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Motivational, Caring

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• 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 Shaw

  May, Vengeance, Lord

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• The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

  Klaus Schulze

  Emotional, Voice, Musical

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• It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Important, Sound

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Oct 15, 2013

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• Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Kind

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

  William Christopher Handy

  Falling In Love, Mind, Musical

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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