Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.
Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
Man isthe symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animalinventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own makinggoaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)and rotten with perfection.
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.
Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.
I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
Sex is the instrument and love the music.
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don't play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don't know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn't know anything about how to work a 4-track.
A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.