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I played a Bosendorfer when I was little. I felt a difference in the presence of this instrument. It was like it had a ghost protecting it. Sometimes it was sinister, others alluring. It was like the soul of it came from the underworld. I’ve played some Steins that I’ve had a relationship with For the most part, the Bosendorfers are hand made, you get the personality of the maker. It gives you more stuff to work with as a player. They’re live things, they really are.
View quotes by Tori Amos

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself
View quotes by Johann Sebastian Bach

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
View quotes by Humphrey Davy

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love
View quotes by St Francis Of Assisi

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
View quotes by George Santayana

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
View quotes by John Adams

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
View quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce

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.
View quotes by Mary Sarton

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
View quotes by Simone Weil

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
View quotes by George Gallup

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
View quotes by Peter F Drucker

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
View quotes by Calvin Coolidge

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
View quotes by Marcel Proust

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
View quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible; if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.
View quotes by Charles Babbage

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather than its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as the bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture
View quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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