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Musical Instruments Quotes

In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize.
- Thomas Aquinas

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
- Bjork

..All the shops have been smashed open. There was a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?"
"Yeah" said Rincewind "..Luters I expect
- Terry Pratchett

Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad's snare drum from the house, Henry's guitar from his car, Adam's spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad's songs, Adam's songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.
- Gayle Forman

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
- Tom T Hall

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
- Yoyo Ma

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.
- Orhan Pamuk

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
- Ravi Shankar

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
- David Del Tredici

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
- Alan Watts

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