Their musical ability and performance seems to derive from the past collective experience and presents itself in the individual unconscious today. Through it we tap into something eternal and it is apparent even in how...

It’s tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there’s someone out there who wants to kill you.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

I play the only instrument that takes in music rather than propelling it out: the ear trumpet. Don’t bother snickering at me—I am deaf to your mockery.

A feather when viewed separately may seem like only a feather,But when seen through the eyes of truth it is a sacred instrument that lifts a bird in flight.

For an actor, if you’re not doing a job, you can’t just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

Drums were my first instrument.

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

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

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I’ve played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can play the ‘Gloria’?

The brain is a harmonic instrument. It vibrates to the same wavelength.

The exciting thing about mathematics and science and music and literature is what they can tell us about the workings of the human mind. For these disciplines are literally models (extensions) of at least certain...

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

The study of man is the study of his extensions.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

The adept is only adept, because such an instrument she crafted and bowed her soul to be.

Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over, perhaps create their own world where everything is better..

From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man’s basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill...

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...

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

It is characteristic of all extension systems to be treated as distinct and separate from the user and to take on an identity of their own. Religions, philosophies, literature, and art illustrate this. After a...

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

You must have the music to justify an instrument’s extensive use.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

i have a body and I am grateful, as I find it to be a very useful instrument for expressing love, strength, flexibility, gracebut, I am not my body…

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

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information...

I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late James Watt, who said … that I deserved hanging for bringing into...

The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor beauty to the results. In truth, in truism if the reader...

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I play my harmonica when I’m in love, because the harmonica is the instrument of loneliness.

Music gives inspiration…one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas.

Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is...

The only time I’m miserable is when I can’t keep an instrument in tune.

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to...