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

• 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

• 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

• Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

  

  Serge Daney
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Cinema

• So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

  

  Stewart Copeland The Police
  • Play
  • Instruments
  • Suppose

• One of the things that was a blessing for me is my parents were music lovers. Neither of my parents played an instrument, but they were avid record buyers. And I grew up at every age listening to all kinds of music.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Listening

• The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities can bring a real and secure peace to the world.

  

  Trygve Lie
  • Real
  • Constructive
  • Common

• The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

  

  William James
  • Genius
  • Philosophical
  • Essence

• Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

  

  Raymond Queneau
  • Important
  • Character
  • Sometimes

• What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify.

  

  Wallace Olins, CBE
  • Accepting
  • Dislike
  • Branding

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

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Instruments