#instrument

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. ↗

— Jay London

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Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with. ↗

— Kimbra

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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. ↗

— Paul Klee

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In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ↗

— May Sarton

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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

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The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

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