#instrument

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism. ↗

— John Bolton

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago. ↗

— Steve Vai

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And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

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But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument. ↗

— Midge Ure

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't. ↗

— Anne Dudley

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Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise. ↗

— Richard Thompson

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