Instruments Quotes
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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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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.
Stan Getz
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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.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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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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The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
Herb Alpert
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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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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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The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
William Shakespeare
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We play the instruments we love.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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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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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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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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Сommon sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
Susanne Langer
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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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... 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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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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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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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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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.
George Brecht
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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
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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
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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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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