Instruments Quotes
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The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
William Greider -
My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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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 -
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz -
The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.
David Lanz -
... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
If you add real, live instruments, then it takes you into different realms of sorts and it doesn't sound so electronic all the way through.
Paul Hardcastle -
There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.
Quentin Tarantino -
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.
Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones -
We play the instruments we love.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons -
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
Herb Alpert
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Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons -
The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
William Shakespeare -
I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo -
We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons -
When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.
Lao Tzu -
I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
Cass McCombs
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Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic. Before the invention of navigational instruments, a beautiful lady was carved on the prow of the boat to help sailors cross the ocean; and architects, grappling with the intangibles of design, select a guru whose work gives them personal help in areas where there are few rules to follow. The guru, as architectural father-figure, is subject to intense hate and love; either way, the relationship is personal, and necessarily one-to-one.
Denise Scott Brown -
We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.
Martin Luther -
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
Ethel Waters -
Not only are we not using any programmed loops or computers onstage, we're also improvising with our instruments. We're playing our instruments probably more so than most people that I see play their instruments. I think we all sort of strive for that - we all want magical things to happen onstage. We don't say "mistakes" in this band, we call them "highlights."
Brendan Benson