Instruments Quotes
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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.
Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
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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.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
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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
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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
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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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.
Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
Evan Parker
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If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.
Earl Stevens
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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
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The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
William Greider
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We play the instruments we love.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
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Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.
David Garrett
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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
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Сommon sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
Susanne Langer
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Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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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
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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.
Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
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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.
William Henry Chamberlin
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After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
Michael Mandelbaum
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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
Ethel Waters
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The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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