Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse L. Martin

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

Bobby McFerrin

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

Travie McCoy

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.

Laura Marano

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.

Billie Joe Armstrong

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

Donald Tusk

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

Clyde Tombaugh

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

Cecilia Bartoli

When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

Chino Moreno

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

K'naan

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

But we're not really sure what we can do with it. We don't know enough about the atmosphere, and this is the first instrument of its type. So we don't know what we're going to find out, so that makes it exciting.

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

C. S. Lewis

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

Anais Nin

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Alexander Pope

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

John Clarke

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

I thought, 'A serious instrument has to be made of wood, varnished, treated.'

Eberhard Weber

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.

Irving Penn

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

Our key instrument and main weapon is a strong state, strong authorities, a strong government.

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

Just about anything that could be wrong with the instrument is probably wrong.

Ike Turner

Piano's really my instrument ,and that's what they'll see when I get to Tokyo this time. They never saw me play the piano.

Mahatma Gandhi

Charkha is an instrument of service.

Logan Lerman

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

Even if it's been 20 years since you have played and no longer have an instrument we can use everyone. We will find you an instrument.

Paul Singer

Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should have a zero risk weighting.

Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Isaac Barrow

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