I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
When they so-called 'target the interest rate', what they're doing is controlling the money supply via the interest rate. The interest rate is only an intermediary instrument.
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.
A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence
The future is a monotonous instrument
The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.
Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.
How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?
As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing.
Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.
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 must play the instrument I've got.
All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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.
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.
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 are only so many instruments you can layer on top of each other that aren't perfectly electronically programmed. "Long Vermont Roads" just cannot be performed live, because it's just too cluttered if it's played by humans. Synthesizers stay out of each other's way in a way that hand-played instruments never can.