Salmeen Instruments Quotes

We are all but instruments of God. ~ Stonewall Jackson

At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend and he was making instruments, Paul Burwell and I were making instruments, Evan Parker was making instruments, and we knew Hugh Davies, who was a real pioneer of these amplified instruments. ~ David Toop

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments. ~ John Cale

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies. ~ Ismail Kadare

In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; 'here', there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization). ~ Dada Bhagwan

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me. ~ Abbey Lincoln

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. ~ Hugh Laurie

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge. ~ Mark Twain

All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by. ~ Mother Teresa

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth. ~ Nhat Hanh

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works. ~ Martin Luther

Very young people are true but not resounding instruments. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

We need to play each others instruments. ~ Steven Johnson

How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more? ~ Dov Davidoff

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument. ~ Max Tundra

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill. ~ Alexander Pope

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering. ~ Radhanath Swami

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. ~ Edgard Varese

I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish. ~ Lenny Kravitz

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education. ~ John Henry Newman

The instruments you have are the right instruments for you, because you've been shaped by them. That's another law. ~ Gene Wolfe

I am so grateful to be the one of the instruments of His word that impacts the world. ~ Euginia Herlihy

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. ~ David Del Tredici

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered. ~ Yo-Yo Ma

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit. ~ Albert Einstein

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. ~ Evan Parker

Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal? ~ Dada Bhagwan

I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments ... I'm looking for instruments that have vocal sounds, forgotten instruments like the guimbri ... The first and second albums were about the voice, what came before. This album is about introducing those sounds into modern, Western life, ~ Marie Daulne

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. ~ Bryan Procter

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. ~ Mitch Albom

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin. ~ Zach Condon

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions. ~ John Ortberg

There are instruments and human players but sometimes a fiddle or a drum make instruments of those who play them, and all are put in servitude to the song. ~ Colson Whitehead

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement. ~ Walter J. Phillips

If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic! ~ Trilok Gurtu

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters. ~ George F. Kennan

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. ~ William Shakespeare

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice. ~ Laozi

As a writer we are our own instruments; we need to protect our instrument, because no one will protect it if we don't. ~ Dani Shapiro

In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize. ~ Thomas Aquinas

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence. ~ Maria Montessori

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. ~ Walt Whitman

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. ~ Robert Wyatt

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary. ~ Edward Abbey

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument. ~ Mike Figgis

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. ~ David Byrne

Soldering iron, Max."
Tim cauterised the severed veins. Medical instruments were often just precision variations of the same tools handymen used. ~ Nick Cutter

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. ~ Evelyn Glennie

God has His own way of choosing His instruments. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest. ~ John Lyly

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. ~ Cassandra Clare

The Holy Spirit's instruments have no consciousness of His purpose; if they imagine they have, it is a pretty sure token that they are NOT His instruments. Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Eugene H. Peterson

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance. ~ John Cale

The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you ~ Sunday Adelaja

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well. ~ Amy Winehouse

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ~ George Santayana

Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions. ~ Francis Bacon

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well. ~ Dan Fogelberg

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined. ~ Brigham Young

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats? ~ Prince Philip

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. ~ Joseph Joubert

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. ~ Alexander Hamilton

Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. ~ Laozi

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place. ~ Steven Millhauser

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages. ~ A.B. Simpson

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them. ~ Ardant Du Picq

You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments. ~ Bernie Worrell

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them ~ Bruno Latour

When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the embouchure, the reed, etc. But with the recorder, I receive an immediate response from the instrument. This is something that attracted me to the instrument, that I could immediately feel the response of what I was doing. ~ Michala Petri

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. ~ P.J. Harvey

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate. ~ Bernard Baruch

The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments. ~ Seth Klarman

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin. ~ Michael Stipe

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive. ~ Ulysses S. Grant

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. ~ James Madison

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. ~ George Gershwin

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me. ~ Gary Clark, Jr.

Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't! ~ Jude Law

This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived. ~ Francois Fenelon

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. ~ Herbert Marcuse

Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices. ~ Rodrigue Tremblay

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. ~ John Darnielle

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. ~ Peter De Vries

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. ~ Fred Allen

I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music. ~ Nicky Romero

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it. ~ Son Lux

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em. ~ Adrian Grenier

A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work. ~ Joseph Alleine

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. ~ Carlos Castaneda

There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes and rhythms interlock. Then comes the technical side like programming, instruments and designing instruments. Next is production and mixing and beyond that I start to care less. ~ Squarepusher

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream. ~ Lennart Nilsson

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments. ~ Ikue Mori

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to. ~ Brian Eno

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing. ~ Billy Sheehan