Instruments Quotes
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You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.
Amanda Perez
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I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
Mike Figgis
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The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.
Paul Davies
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.
Cootie Williams
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The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
Steve Martin
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There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.
Anthony Trollope
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I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
Rosemary Clooney
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It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.
Ezra Koenig
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All instruments sound fantastic in a church.
Colin Meloy
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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
Paul Gauguin
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Our pointe shoes are our instruments. If something's wrong with my feet, all my mind goes there. I usually have six pairs ready. Soft shoes for one act, stiffer shoes for another, stronger shoes for a variation with a lot of turns.
Nina Ananiashvili
