#instruments

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#guitar #had #hear #i #instruments

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#comes #could #family #had #i

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#instruments #intestinal #lower #most #music

But it doesn't change what we are to each other. It's like there's always been a piece of my soul missing, and it's inside you, Clary. I know I told you once that wheter God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #clary-fray #god #jace-lightwood #jace-wayland

So you speak French?" Isabelle sighed. "I wish I spoke another language. But Hodge never thought we needed to learn anything but ancient Greek and Latin, and nobody speaks those." "I also speak Russian and Italian. And some Romanian," Sebastian said with a modest smile. "I could teach you some phrases-" "Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. "My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #mortal-instruments #romanian #sebastian #humor

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments. ↗

— William Lilly

#divine #god #his #i #i believe

The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe). ↗

— Jasper Rees

#music

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty. ↗

— Max Roach

#collectively #comes #communal #create #democratic

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#clients #craft #instruments #lawyers #pride

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. ↗

— Walter Pater

#gather #help #ideas #instruments #may