If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.
The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
Charkha is an instrument of service.
And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape.
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
If a band isn't coming up with two to four of those when they pick up their instruments, then they have problems - even if none of them turn into a song. If that's not happening in a band, it's time for therapy or breaking up.
The violin - that most human of all instruments.
The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.
It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.
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.
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.