Instruments Quotes
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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.
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Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.
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Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
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We play the instruments we love.
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I came from an era when we didn’t use electronic instruments. The bass wasn’t even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
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The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
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... 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
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...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from an instrument it tends to pull them in. You have to listen a little more attentively. High frequency instruments hit you so hard, after a while the ear has a tendency to want to shut down. And that's what happens. I've been able to observe very carefully how people tend to get very tired of listening to high frequencies a lot.
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The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Сommon sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
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The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
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People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.
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There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.
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Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.
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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.
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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.
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
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Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
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If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.
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Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
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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.
