Instrument

Famous quotes containing the word instrument:

“The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.”
—Alla Nazimova (1879–1945)

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)