You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.
The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.
It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.
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.
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges the gross elements of matter - a spark of celestial fire, by which life is kindled and preserved, and which, if even the instruments it employs are indestructible in their essence, must itself, of necessity, be immortal.
The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.
Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.
An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
You've got to learn your instrument.
If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.