A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Reggie Jackson

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
Marian Anderson

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
Joe Bob Briggs

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

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
William Petty

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
Vanessa Carlton

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
Lynn Johnston

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
Levon Helm

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
Nick Rahall

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Edward Levi

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
Mick Fleetwood

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
Eberhard Weber

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
Catherine Deneuve

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
Josh Silver

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
Steve Vai

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?
Mick Ralphs

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
Buddy Rich

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
Charlie Hunter

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