Quotes of: Musical-instrument Keyword

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Herbert Marcuse

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

Neville Marriner

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

Nat Wolff

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Peter F. Drucker

Playing an instrument is its own reward. Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment.

Peter James West

Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

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

Rita Levi-Montalcini

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

Suzanne Farrell

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

Steve Lacy

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

Kristian Bush

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

Lionel Hampton

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

Laura Mvula

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Leonardo da Vinci

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Mose Allison

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

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

Rose Schneiderman

I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling.

Rudy Vallee

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.

Mark Shand

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

Nelly Furtado