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After restoring one key on a woodwind instrument, three others will malfunction.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

When a conductor gives students letters for parents, 15% will be left on music stands, 25% will be inside the music, 15% will rot in instrument cases, 15% will be left in lockers, 15% will crawl under the student's bed, and 15% of the parents will...

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about students, parents, music

Invariably, the melody will be in an instrument you do not have.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

The most precise measuring instrument known to man for finding the exact center underneath a parked vehicle is a ball being used in a very enjoyable lawn game, this will not work if other balls are available.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about games, being, work, man

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally.

Quote by Brad Paisley about opinion

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

Quote by Evan Parker about voice, being

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, purity, voice

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

Quote by Evan Parker about mind

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Quote by Walter Pater about idea, criticism, help

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, destruction, society

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Quote by Adam Smith about ambition, real estate, man

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Quote by Friedrich Engels about state, nothing

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Quote by Antoine Lavoisier about nature, god

Thought having an abstract character, word – as an instrument of speech, was given to us as a gift with the common sense of measure; consequently – according to the physiology of the feeling language is nothing else but the unmoderate sense of...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about love