Best Instruments Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.”

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.”

Done Play Film Growing Up Growing Band Yeah Instruments

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.”

Real Play Waste Instruments My Time Wasting My Time Don't Waste My Time

Author:Jason Newsted

“I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.”

People Voice Theory Harmony Instruments Good Things Track Albums Vocal Tracking

Author:Joanna Newsom

“It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.”

Men Moments Race Instruments Enlightened Almighty Statesmanship

Author:Robert Dale Owen

“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.”

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“The real forces behind Bolshevism is Russia are Jewish forces, and Bolshevism is really an instrument in the hands of the Jews for the establishment of their future Messianic kingdom.”

Real Hands Force Behinds Instruments Jew Russia Kingdoms Establishment Bolshevism

Author:Denis Fahey

“The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.”

Life Art Moments Life Is Change Perfect Expression Instruments Realization Present Moment That Moment Live In The Moment Live In The Present

Book:The Sermon on the Mount: a general introduction to scientific Christianity in the form of a spiritual key to Matthew V, VI, and VII

Source: The Sermon on the Mount: a general introduction to scientific Christianity in the form of a spiritual key to Matthew V, VI, and VII

“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.”

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Author:Chord Overstreet

“After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.”

Years Kind Self Play Lasts Challenges Gone Records Five Self Esteem Instruments Esteem Five Years Disappointed Challenging Myself

Author:Cat Power

“I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.”

Stills Play Kids Stupid Instruments Singers Music Love

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.”

Country Democracy Creation Keys Development Fairs Instruments Developing Related Components Governance Promotion Prospects Developing Countries Equitable

Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar

“The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.”

People Want Mind Self Play Problem Might Pay Crazy Stage Self Esteem Lows Standing Asking Instruments Esteem Low Self Esteem Drive Me Crazy

Author:Colin Quinn

“The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.”

Writing Kind Pleasure Materials Instruments Singers Seekers Cradle Nancy Younger Sister

Author:Suzi Quatro

“I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Kind Character Stories Song Fall Ready Couple Instruments Locked Scenarios

Author:Graham Russell

“I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.”

Littles Instruments

Author:Chad Smith

“Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.”

Thinking Realizing Loses Too Much Buddhism Balance Terrible Eternity Instruments Stuck Traps

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others.”

Realizing Compassion Judging Buddhism Balance Instruments Advancing Do Not Judge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of revenues in instruments of destruction, it is certainly not an evolved society or an intelligent society.”

Ifs Age Humanity Dark Numbers Buddhism Amount Destruction Intelligent Instruments Revenue Dark Ages Large Numbers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.”

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Author:Jeff Lynne

“The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.”

Play Bigs Growing Up Growing My Family Instruments Musical Big Things Musical Instruments Family Growing Up

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.”

Hands Song Three Instruments Quarters

Author:Richard Thompson

“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.”

World Whole Dream Sound Instruments Rhythm Contribution New World My Thoughts Obedient Futurist

Author:Edgard Varese

“Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.”

Writing Matter Attention Practice Talent Instruments Crafts

Author:Susan Wiggs

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

Kind Mother Order Father House Instruments All Kinds Mail

Author:Cassandra Wilson

“Voice is my instrument.”

Voice Instruments

Author:Debra Wilson

“There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.”

People Thinking Want Important Real Character Stories Bigs Wanted Stars Happened Television Drug Happenings Instruments Plot 80s

Author:Jessica Pare

“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“Good things come to those who wait.”

Book:Porcelain

Source: Porcelain

“The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.”

Century Projects Instruments Chemicals 19th Century Predecessors

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.”

Want Lost Style Picks Instruments

Author:Stacy London

“Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.”

Party Revolution Instruments

Author:Ernest Mandel

“I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.”

Song Actors Computer Instruments Studios Arrangements

Author:St. Vincent

“Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.”

Persons Today Records Involved Musician Instruments Productions Producers Sole

Author:Tony Visconti

“There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.”

World Feels Trying Kids Picks Instruments Ministers Changing The World Yards Yard Sale

Author:Dave Grohl

“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.”

Thinking Musician Instruments Jazz Appreciation Vocabulary Pedestrians

Author:Tom Waits

“Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.”

Silence Instruments Silence Is Blunt

Book:Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

“The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.”

Mean Nations Communication Civilization Draws Instruments Productions Improvement Rapids Bourgeoisie Communist Manifesto Means Of Communication

Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings

“Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.”

World Player Instruments Chinese Gifted Fangs World Famous

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.”

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Author:Randy Houser

“I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.”

Teaching Theory Harmony Instruments

Author:George Benson

“I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.”

Said Home School Used Teacher Example Instruments Musical Neglect Senators Public School Charlie Bud Benign Elementary School Musical Instruments Music Teacher

Author:Max Roach

“I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.”

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Author:Max Roach

“Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described.”

Kind Persons Care Form Process Pleasure Attention Responsibility Compassion Instruments Precise Precision

Book:Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

“For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when I originally composed them, and also to compose some new tracks for this new technology. All of the existing tracks in AERO have been performed with the original instruments, re-recorded and spatially arranged/spatialised for this new dimensional sound experience without betraying their very essence.”

Giving Has Beens Wanted Order Sound Space Technology Essence Originals Instruments Track Betray New Technology

Author:Jean Michel Jarre

“All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.”

Mean Struggle Violence Achieve Instruments Democratic

Author:Osman Baydemir

“I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.”

Trying Use Instruments Overload Orchestration

Author:Abel Korzeniowski

“I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.”

Years Long Has Beens I Can Seems Might Remember Song Instruments Come Up Piano

Author:Ian MacKaye

“So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.”

Play Used Player Listening Ears Instruments Jazz Bass Bass Players

Author:Miroslav Vitous

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