#instrument

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ignore #instruments #irrelevant #movements #once

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#display #emotions #imaginary #instrumental #lets

It's not that," said Magnus "There are some people - people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #jace-lightwood #magnus-bane #mortal-instruments #beauty

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything! ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#does #everything #instrument #little #man

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#brain #clear #fantasies #feeding #hear

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#able #actual #amazed #any #became

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#his #humor #i #i love #instrumental

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#color #i #instrument #like #palette

The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#armed #armed forces #election #ever #first

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. ↗

— Kenneth Miller

#electric #expressive #instrument #match #mystery