And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
I am, by nature, a guitar player. . . I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
The thing I've learned is it's good to restrict your palette somewhat. I will try and, say, use two or three instruments on one track. You learn, after a while, they're all good at certain things and other things fall outside of the natural areas they work well in, so I tend to stick with what they do best.
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.
I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.
Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly. . . music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.
I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.
I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.