Instruments Quotes - Page 6

• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

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• It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flower, Moving, Apology

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Bones”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Meanwhile,” Simon added, “I wanted to tell you that lately I‘ve been cross-dressing. Also, I‘m sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Sleep, Bones

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• All good things come to those who wait.

  Paullina Simons

  Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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• All things come to those who wait.

  Violet Fane

  Patience, Funny Inspirational, Life Changing

  Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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• I guess good things come to those who wait.

  Kurt Busch

  Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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• You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

  Billy Higgins

  Voice, Firsts, Humans

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• Gardening is an instrument of grace.

  May Sarton

  Grace, Gardening

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  John Adams

  Party, Government, Unnecessary War

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.814, Library of America

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Play

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• Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Riches, Wealth

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Miserable, Melancholy, Isolated

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• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Peace, Real, War

  Carl von Clausewitz (1943). “On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles”

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Patriotic, Deities, Wealth

  1928 Speech, Boston, 11 Jun.

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• The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

  Friedrich Engels

  Class, Republic, States

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• Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

  Steve Lacy

  Grateful, Different, Way

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Independence, Turns

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

  John Ruskin

  Hands, Punishment, Prevention

  "Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes". Book by John Ruskin, 1868.

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• If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Should, Synthesizers

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• Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

  Steve Vai

  Being In Love, Player, Guitar

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

  Cicely Tyson

  Life, Women, Adversity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

  Henri Bergson

  Intuition, Natural Instinct, Faculty

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Creative Evolution”, p.139, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

  Brian Eno

  Moving, Player, Watches

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• God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Play, Able

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• Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Artist, Past, Names

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