Instrument Quotes

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

My body is an instrument for me to use.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

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

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

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.

My voice is an instrument.

I can do a gig without an instrument.

I use my voice as an instrument.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

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

I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

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

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

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

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

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

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Voice is my instrument.