Instrument Quotes

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

“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

“The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments”
― Charles-Auguste de Beriot

“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear" (p.251).”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.”
― Charlie Parker

“An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.”
― Robert A. Rice Jr.

“The brain is a harmonic instrument.
It vibrates to the same wavelength.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife. Nonmusicians don't understand. An instrument is like a companion and a lover.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“The insane human mind is the greatest scientific instrument known to mankind.”
― Steven Magee

“It is in the time of peace that the instruments of war are built.”
― Paul Bamikole

“I am far too weak to help you. But God is not too weak to use me to help you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how play best, but with a listener who understands nothing or does not wish to understand and who does not feel with me in what I am playing, all my pleasure, let alone effort, is spoiled.”
― Lebo Grand, Sensual Lifestyle

“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how to play (though yes, I do know how to play the keys), but with a listener who understands nothing or does not wish to understand and who does not feel with me in what I am playing, all my pleasure, let alone effort, is spoiled”
― Lebo Grand, Sensual Lifestyle

“When I got back to my billet I found my farmer at table with his wife and niece.
“Tell me,” I said to him; “how many instruments do you think a pilot has to look after?”
“How should I know? Not my trade,” he answered. “Must be some missing, though, to my way of thinking. The ones you win a war with. Have some supper?”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight To Arras

“Must be some missing, though, to my way of thinking. The ones you win a war with. Have some supper?”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight To Arras

“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.”
― Pete Hamill, Why Sinatra Matters

“And wise Uncle Venner, passing slowly from the ruinous porch, seemed to hear a strain of music, and fancied that sweet Alice Pyncheon-after witnessing these deeds, this bygone woe and this present happiness, of her kindred mortals-had given one farewell touch of a spirit's joy upon her harpsichord, as she floated heavenward from the House of the Seven Gables”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

“The only instrument through which time could be converted to yield greatness is the instrumentality of work.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“The instrument through which time is converted is called work.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Existence is mathematical music, and all of us are the instruments playing the cosmic symphony. Our task is simple - to arrive not at any old music, but the finest music that can possibly be played. The ideal music is reached when every player is in perfect harmony with every other player, and not a single discordant note is played.”
― Steve Madison, The Musical Theory of Existence: Hearing the Music of the Spheres

“That's because the guitar is speaking to you, bringing your senses alive. Music is an age-old language. It speaks to everyone, young and old. It lifts the spirit and touches the heart, when it stops it lives on inside you, making you richer in mind and spirit.”
― Josephine Cox, Three Letters

“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with the sense that Providence had taken control of his life, that he was a small instrument in a transcendent task.”
― David Brooks

“Imagine that you are on the street and someone attacks you. If you feel that you must fight back to defend yourself, you might instinctively make a fist and punch at the attacker’s head. In the heat of the moment, you might try to do this over and over again, using one instrument against one target. While natural, this may not be the most effective approach, especially against a competent attacker. Rather, you want to “work the whole body.” Instead of focusing narrowly on one target, or using only one method of attack, more experienced fighters will consider all of their instruments (two hands, two feet, knees, elbows, nearby items that can be used for defense, and so on) and evaluate all potential areas that could be targeted.”
― Deepak Malhotra, Negotiating the impossible: how to break deadlocks and resolve ugly conflicts

“The tunes he played on that instrument wouldn't be audible to the living. That didn't mean they wouldn't be real.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“A good guitarist will always try to get the best out of the instrument that they are holding in their hands. The same goes for bass guitar players.”
― André van Eck, From Beginner to Excelling at Guitar & Bass

“Will you teach me something?"
I was about to say no, the viola really wasn’t the instrument to start learning with, but she’d been said no to a lot in her short life.”
― Jules Wake, Notting Hill in the Snow

“It's not about avoiding ai, it's about delegating menial tasks to ai - fire, steam, electricity, internet, ai, these are all tools, sooner or later you will adopt it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“She gazed, mesmerized, at the water, unknowable in the shadows, until a sunbeam found its way in, at just the right angle, and reached into the depths with a flash of blue-green. Light reflected off bronze, and she glimpsed the carnyx. It was real, this instrument.
She heard her voice emerge like a dragon's. And she felt her selves join. Singer and listener became one and the same.”
― Laura Resau, The River Muse

“Feeling light and free, she pulled him along, toward the source of La Chanson, which was calling to them. As their strides synchronized, she glanced at the river, braids of aquamarine and sapphire and emerald, like Luc’s irises. She snuck a sideways look at them, refracting and reflecting the water’s light.
As they approached the limestone cliffs that hid the source, he broke the pocket of silence. “You channel something when you sing. Something bigger than yourself.”
She took this in, looking up at the towering white stone, a natural temple, then glanced toward the cavern beside them, with its deep pool of water far below in the shadows.
“Like an underground spring,” he said.
She met his gaze, etched his words into her mind, engraved them into her heart. He understood her. She was just leaning toward his lips, when she heard a rumbling from the depths. The carnyx.
Luc gasped. “Did you see that?”
“Oui.” She straightened up and turned back to face him. “I saw it the other time I was here too.”
He looked at her in wonder. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, Callie… and you’re two for two?”
She felt the music coming from inside and outside and everywhere. All at once. If she opened her mouth, a song might pour out. On impulse, she grabbed Luc by the collar, pulled him close. Their kiss was a duet, soft and feathery at first, then growing more intense. Their music intermingled from a hidden source, and the river music swelled, rich and deep.
He laughed too. “I wish we’d come here sooner.”
“So do I.”
He raised an eyebrow. “I think La Chanson wants you to stay.”
“You think?”
From the depths came another roar, straight from a dragon’s mouth.”
― Laura Resau, The River Muse

“The carnyx—like Pepito— was an ancient source of power in her life. It was more than an artifact— it was a treasure whose bond with her ran deep and strong.
Somehow, the carnyx had survived for millennia in the depths of a watery cave. Admittedly, she didn’t fully understand how this was possible. A patina forming over the bronze, preventing rust? Something about the water chemistry? The unique geology of the limestone cave system? Or was it something more… magical?
She wasn’t clear either, how, at certain times, when she most needed it, she heard the carnyx roar. Was it the water rushing through tunnels, angled through the six-foot-long instrument? Or was it a mythical force that brought the dragon to life, made the carnyx rumble in her bones like a battle cry?”
― Laura Resau, The River Muse