Instruments Quotes
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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 -
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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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 -
Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one must put oneself in harmony with oneself and with others.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
Nick Cannon -
The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
Robert Wyatt -
Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
Steve Earle -
Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles.
Richard Feynman
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I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
Mike Figgis -
It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.
Ezra Koenig -
All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.
Mother Teresa -
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 -
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
Ravi Shankar -
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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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 -
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
Paul Gauguin -
Histories are instruments of oppression.
Catherynne M. Valente -
The child was born at a quarter to eight, emerging so easily that neither chloroform nor instruments were needed.
Edmund Morris