Instruments Quotes

“I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

“She always wanted to be the kind of person who could play the "Moonlight" Sonata.

She buries her failure in this, as she buries all her failures, in reading.”
― Lauren Groff, Florida

“Music is formed by instruments, framed with notes, paced by our hands playing with Time, but above all, it is made up of emotions. It transports you back to moments when you felt most alive. If it doesn’t release your locked feelings, music is just air.”
― Joseph Legaspi, A Three-Year Minute

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE

Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether.
And without its instrumentation
By the ether,
There would be no waves.
And without any waves,
There would be no sound.
And without sound,
There would be no music.
And without music,
There would be no life.
And without a life force,
There would be no matter.
But it does not matter -
Because what is matter,
If there is no light?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We are all beautiful instruments of God. He created many notes in music so that we would not be stuck playing the same song. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your journey and play on. Nobody will ever reach ultimate perfection in this lifetime, but trying to achieve it is a full-time job. Start now and don't stop. Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society, tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with pride
For they are the players of harmony.

Pilgrims, too, wear the imprint on their foreheads with pride
For they are the conductors of unity.

And Lovers? Why, they are made humble by the imprint on their hearts
For they are merely the instruments of rhapsody.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbeat thump of drums; the mournful wail of violins--we love them because they sound like us.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

“Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own; if your knight could shuffle himself on to a new square by the sly; if your bishop, at your castling, could wheedle your pawns out of their places; and if your pawns, hating you because they are pawns, could make away from their appointed posts that you might get checkmate on a sudden. You might be the longest-headed of deductive reasoners, and yet you might be beaten by your own pawns. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with the game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for his instruments.”
― George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

“He heard someone playing an Andalusian guitar, the drumming of a thousand bat wings inside a dark cave. He heard an ancient lyre, the leaf of autumn falling to the ground, someone whispering "I love you". He heard the sound of winf, a beating heart, and a mother saying good night to her child.”
― Mira Bartok, The Wonderling

“Soldering iron, Max.”
Tim cauterised the severed veins. Medical instruments were often just precision variations of the same tools handymen used.”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop

“When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won’t notice the theft.”
― Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz

“As with dreams, the vibration of strings walks us towards places we've never seen.”
― Ross Caligiuri

“The children of God are His instruments on the earth.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“With true light comes instruments of peace. It's best when such peace begins in an American home and spread out throughout the many homes, villages and societies in the world.”
― Erwin K. Thomas, A Weekly Encounter: Fifty-Two Meditations of Hope

“In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; ‘here’, there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“I am so grateful to be the one of the instruments of His word that impacts the world.”
― Euginia Herlihy

“Life is an Orchestra with Success and Failure as two very important instruments. They compliment each other and are needed at different stages of life to achieve delight!!!”
― Santosh Adbhut Kumar

“The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal?”
― Dada Bhagwan

“« Instruisez-vous, ajoute l'apôtre, et exhortez-vous les uns les autres par des psaumes, des hymnes et des cantiques spirituels, chantant de cœur, avec édification, les louanges de Dieu. Quelque chose que vous fassiez, soit en parlant ou en agissant, faites tout au nom du Seigneur Jésus-Christ, rendant grâces par lui à Dieu le père. »

Tels doivent être nos festins, pleins de grâces et d'une joie sainte. Si vous savez jouer du luth ou de la harpe, vous le pourrez faire sans mériter de reproche; car vous imiterez ainsi ce saint roi des Hébreux, si agréable et si cher à Dieu.”
― Clement of Alexandria, Le Pédagogue, Tome 1

“Flétna je chrabrý pěšáček, který jde směle ze zteče do zteče, ale mezi nimi často pauzíruje. Helikon je vojevůdce, jenž oznamuje čas i místo bitvy, stvrzuje vítězství i porážky. Vojevůdce nezná pauzy, a proto nesmí znát ani únavu. Neúnavně na sebe láká nové a nové protivníky, aby s nimi sváděl další a další bitvy, neboť jinak by záhy přestal být vojevůdcem. Nese na sobě daleko větší tíhu než voják, což nakonec nebývá ani oceněno. Existuje přece tolik hrobů neznámého vojáka, ale ani jediný hrob neznámého vojevůdce.”
― Pavel Kohout, Ten žena a ta muž: román

“The engineering context of precision where precision is not necessary indicates the existence of sophisticated tools. These have not been found in the archaeological record, but the existence of them must be taken into account when we consider the mountain of circumstantial evidence to support their use.
In the case of the Serapeum, the list of tools and instruments that are necessary to create the granite boxes has grown. We can say with certainty that exact measuring instruments existed, for this work and the work at Luxor and Karnak could not have been accomplished without them. They are the most important and necessary tools for such work. The wooden squares, plumb bobs, and alignment instruments on display in the Luxor and Cairo Museums are incapable of giving even the most talented craftsman the information he needs to know that his work has achieved this kind of accuracy. Even if these boxes and monuments were crafted today with modern tools, such instruments are limited in what they can measure--and they most certainly cannot explain the precision and geometry [on display].”
― Christopher Dunn, Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs

“We are the main instruments in creating abundance in our lives. For a Soul from Mercury, abundance starts from the inside out.”
― Raju Ramanathan, Souls From Mercury: Chakra Magic: Empowering Relationships

“When he played the guitar, the music was in his head and in his heart.”
― Josephine Cox, Three Letters

“ “How do you tune an instrument? You take a guitar or a violin— or any stringed instrument—for example. You have to tighten the strings, plucking and strumming until the right music comes through. Some strings are more stubborn than others and take a bit longer, but every one needs tuning. More often the more you use them. 
“Isn’t that like our own hearts? 
“We get tired, we get weary, we get out of tune with God’s music. The praise we attempt to sing, the speaking of His grace… it falls flat, like an old, weary guitar string. That’s why we have to do our best to let Christ tune our hearts daily—with tension, with gentle rebukes and loving comforts, strumming and tightening until a pure note sings from our soul. 
“And then we can honestly sing of His grace once again.” ”
― LaKaysha Stenersen, Sing Thy Grace