Satyajit Ray Quotes

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

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• The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Band
  • Guys
  • Instruments

• Most of my instruments are handmade.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Most
  • Instruments
  • Handmade

• I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

  

  J. Cole
  • School
  • Play
  • Instruments

• The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Playing
  • Instruments
  • Notions

• In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Up
  • Way
  • Years

• If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.

  

  Earl Stevens
  • Play
  • Piano
  • Instruments

• They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

  

  Max Roach
  • Sound
  • Made
  • Movement

• I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

  

  William Herschel
  • Found
  • Lasts
  • Instruments

• Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Spirit
  • Sense
  • Instruments

• A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Guitar
  • Instruments
  • Trumpet

• The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Sad
  • Darkness

• In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Instruments
  • Empire
  • Builders

• The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Means
  • Instruments
  • Designs

• I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Giving
  • Stronger
  • Directors

• I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think regular touring has forced me to play the guitar more than anything else, which is why I'm probably most confident playing that. And whist I'd be lost if I couldn't play it too, I dislike the totemic worship of the thing... magazines, collectors, and so on. I enjoy struggling with instruments I can't really play.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Instruments

• We play the instruments we love.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Love
  • Play
  • Instruments

• The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.

  

  George Washington
  • Eye
  • Blessing
  • Praise

• I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

  

  Sappho
  • Instruments
  • Heavenly
  • Tortoises

• Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

  

  George Eliot
  • Danger
  • Instruments
  • Melodies

• I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to do with that. A lot of times it's just acoustic guitar and a small riff that produces a song. Ultimately you want to write a song that people are going to enjoy and that you love to play, most importantly you have to write it for yourself first.

  

  Barry Kerch
  • Enjoy
  • Write
  • Guitar

• I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.

  

  Amanda Perez
  • Playing
  • Listen
  • Instruments

• The quantity and quality of your sleep plays a major role in your ability to learn new information.

  

  Amy Morin
  • Sleep
  • Information
  • Ability

• If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.

  

  William Allen White
  • World
  • Men
  • College

• I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Instruments