The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light— grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.

The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of themselves.

First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe.

I learned to play the instruments of war, he said, and paint in blood.

In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; —here', there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization).

Everyone is born with the nimit (karmic evidentiary instruments). I too, am born with nimit. With this body, so and so number of tasks [work] will be done by him, such is the nimit!

In this life, you only need to do this much: You must know that the other person is instrument (nimit, in bringing you the results of your own karmas) so you must remain silent. Do not let the mind spoil in the slightest. If it does, then ask for forgiveness: —Dear Instrument! You are simply an instrument. I ask for forgiveness for spoiling my mind.' You have to do only this much! That is the effort [purusharth]!

You can remain faultless only when you constantly remain as a nimit [instrument, one of the doer and not the whole and sole doer] and remain in the intent of being an instrument [intent that I am one of the doer of many scientific circumstantial evidences]

Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities.

Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal?

Be an instrument of redemption, there are still unreached people