Instrument Quotes

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
...
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- attributed to St. Francis of Assisi

Prayer:
Lord God, Holy Spirit, Giver of All Light,
Bless and Keep All Those of This World.
Grant Us Your Peace, Your Light, Your Love.
Grant Us Complete Renewal of Body, Mind and Spirit -
Continual Rebirth in Newness of Life.
Let Your Light Shine Upon Us and Be Gracious to Us.
Grant to Each and Every One of Us:
Health, Comfort, Joy, Peace Within Ourselves,
Peace Within Our Families, Peace Within Our Communities,
and Peace among All those This World.
Grant That I May Be an Instrument of Thy Peace.
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Peace, Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Comfort, Thy Joy,
to All Those Around Me and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More. AMEN.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart.
The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
- Carlos Santana

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning
the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler

War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Thomas Jefferson

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated,
totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
- Aimee Mann

Everything that slows us down and forces patience,
everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature,
is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power
to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Ambrose Bierce

The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912

Every contrivance of man, every tool,
every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use,
of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
- Robert Collier

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument.
He told me to knock myself out.
- Jay London

The fibers of all things have their tension
and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

But I think that any young drummer starting out today
should get himself a great teacher and learn all there
is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
- Buddy Rich

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy.
That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
- Anatoly Chubais

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument
in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
- John Ruskin

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop.
It's like a good red wine Give it time.
- Cecilia Bartoli

The body is your instrument in dance,
but your art is outside that creature,
the body.
- Martha Graham

With Connery, he does act.
He is in complete command.
He completely trusts the person first,
then the instrument.
I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
- F. Murray Abraham

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk.
He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument,
but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.
- Mimi Rogers

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument,
especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes.
The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument
that is outside of your body.
- Stan Getz

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense,
as a method for comprehending all observable reality,
and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
- Alexis Carrel

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you
an instrument and do whatever it is that you do,
no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.
- Ornette Coleman

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.
- Billie Joe Armstrong

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar.
I love that damn instrument.
- Steve Vai

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process.
If there were an instrument by which to measure desire,
one could foretell achievement.
- Willa Cather

You not only have to know your own instrument,
you must know the others and how to back them up at all times.
That's jazz.
- Oscar Peterson

I thought I'd do everything on four-track,
and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio,
and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.
- Kim Deal

This led me to understand that trade unionism,
the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could,
and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
- Leon Jouhaux

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

The method of political science is the interpretation of life;
its instrument is insight,
a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
- Woodrow Wilson

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is
the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
- Manfred von Richthofen

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
- Kristin Hersh

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument
capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
- Oscar Peterson

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority,
of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man,
and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
- Adam Smith

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy,
ought never to be the system of a regular government.
- Jeremy Bentham

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.
- Anatoly Chubais

My voice is my improvisational instrument,
the melody instrument.
The guitar is harmonic structure.
I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
- Paul Simon

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy,
ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic
process that we as a Country hold so dear.
- Charles Rangel

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of
the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an
essential instrument of responsible journalism.
- Abe Fortas

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

I got into television because I hated it so.
I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous
instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.
- Jeff Greenfield

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to
overcome the imperfections of the instrument.
There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet,
never was and never will be.
- Jack Brymer

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

I use my voice as an instrument.
- Enya

Rock is about finding who you are.
You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all.
You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.
- Gene Simmons

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

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre.
It is the medium of past experience,
as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
- Walter Benjamin

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

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used,
not a deity to be worshipped.
- Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an
instrument with which to worry myself.
- Mark Rutherford

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.
- Andy Summers

The harmonica is a great instrument.
- Toots Thielemans

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

For me it's the instrument.
If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato;
I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.
- Morton Feldman

My voice is an instrument.
- David Coverdale

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

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

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

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.
- Robert Dale Owen

The United Nations system is still the best instrument
for making the world less fragile.
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
- Billy Higgins

In theory it may seem all right to some,
but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance,
I myself don't like it.
- Robert Gould Shaw

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?
- Mick Ralphs

I've written lots of songs on the piano.
My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.
- Mick Taylor

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie