Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by but often they change or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

For the greater beauty of the instrument the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived that they may be taken off at pleasure and others much smaller and fitter for some purposes put in their places.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty is everything!

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

The body is your instrument in dance but your art is outside that creature the body.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.