Instruments Quotes - Page 7

• If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

  Brian Eno

  Moving, Player, Watches

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• There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

  Cass Sunstein

  Pride, Thinking, Uprising

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• I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

  William Lilly

  Stars, Believe, Divine

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• I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

  Leo Kottke

  Guitar, Piano, Notes

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• I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

  Sean Lennon

  Guitar, Two, Piano

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Play, Able

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• Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Technology, Rights, Oppression

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• Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Artist, Past, Names

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• When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

  Max Lerner

  Believe, Evil, Literature

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• Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Stupid, Jazz

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• Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

  Neville Marriner

  Symphony, Late

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• The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

  Gerry Mulligan

  Orchestra, Saxophone, Solo

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• There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

  Lara St. John

  Play, Voice, Trying

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• I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

  Fred Rogers

  Watches, Television, Way

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

  Rosemary Clooney

  Able

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• A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  World, Dictator, Thirds

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• The piano is kind of my second instrument.

  Bill Bruford

  Piano, Kind

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• Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Idols, Play

  "Dave Grohl Just Continues To Dominate" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

  Ben Nicholson

  Men, Agents

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• We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

  Dean Acheson

  Cooperation, United Nations, International

  Dean Acheson (1950). “Strengthening the Forces of Freedom: Selected Speeches and Statements of Secretary of State Acheson, February 1949 - April 1950 [and Supplement May-June 1950].”

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• Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

  Anna Lindh

  Challenges, Borders, World

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• I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

  Mike Figgis

  Musical, Cameras, Ifs

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• It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Sound, Acoustics, Corny

  FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 29, 2013

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• The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

  Plato

  Flutes, Moral, Exciting

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

  Don Henley

  Thinking, Ukulele, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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