Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

William Shakespeare

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

Carl Jung

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...

Chad Smith

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

Bernie Worrell

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

Billy Higgins

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

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Alan Kay

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Charles de Gaulle

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Alan Watts

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Dean Acheson

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

Arnold Palmer

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

Deep Roy

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

Elizabeth Bowen

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Antoine Lavoisier

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

Bill Bruford

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Brittany Murphy

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

Edward Norton

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

Ben Nicholson

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

C. S. Lewis

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Alain de Botton

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Debra Wilson

Voice is my instrument.

Elbert Hubbard

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Edward Abbey

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Abbie Cornish

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

Adolph Zukor

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Anish Kapoor

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

Allan Bloom

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.