#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

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#each #i #instrumentalist #string #try

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#count #hand #hits #i #i can

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#computer-generated #divorced #down #guy #instrument

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'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#audience #bring #honest #hopes #i

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#give #give me #i #i can #instrument