#instruments

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. ↗

— James Madison

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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. ↗

— Pat Metheny

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Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction. ↗

— Marc Ribot

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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. ↗

— David Ives

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