#instrument

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#apparently #base #contempt #due #exposing

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always. ↗

— Bjork

#being #easy #full #house #instruments

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

— Ritchie Blackmore

#instrument #isolated #melancholy #miserable #such

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two. ↗

— Dave Edmunds

#did #done #get #i #instruments

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#eye #gets #immediately #instrument #much

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals. ↗

— John Entwistle

#days #early #equipment #gradually #had

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

#being #enjoy #freedom #give #greater

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#amusement #applied #idle #instrument #most

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#flute #hear #i #instrument #know

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#been #between #critical #east #egypt