Instruments Quotes
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The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.
Thomas Kuhn
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The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
Cecilia Bartoli
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Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
Richard Thompson
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Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
Ernest Becker
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Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.
Terry Eagleton
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I think that he Michael Jackson did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that was denied to himself. There's no question that the transcendent art that he created was a means, an instrument, a vehicle for others to experience what he didn't.
Michael Eric Dyson
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When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.
Cecilia Bartoli
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Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
Gail Pool
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The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!
Cassandra Wilson
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When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.
Walter Rodney
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To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it takes years to start working with it, that's first, and it looks like everybody else is moving on the instrument but you. Then when you find a cat that's really playing, you always find that he's been playing a long time, you can't get around it.
Wes Montgomery
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If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.
Stefon Harris
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Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
Wynton Marsalis
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The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.
Cecilia Bartoli
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare
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You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.
Kathryn Hulme
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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
Robert Wyatt
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I'm a singer. I play keyboards, acoustic and electric 6 & 12 string guitars, bass guitar, flute, mandolin, accordion, percussion, dulcimer, psaltry. When I write songs, often the material will suggest certain instrumentation, so I endeavor to play these parts on their specific instruments.
David Longdon
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You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
Tony Blair
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
Nick Cannon
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We do not have to borrow in the external market, but we have used and are using this traditional instrument in international financial relations.
Vladimir Putin