Instrument Quotes
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The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
Stan Getz
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
Edi Rama
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The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
R. C. Sproul
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I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
Don Henley
The Eagles
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I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
Robin Trower
Procol Harum
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When you learn how to play an instrument, you spend a lot of your time practicing, which keeps you occupied. Music passes your time. As you're going through life, it's something to enjoy. If you can be a part of it, that's even better.
Bobby Balderrama
Question Mark & the Mysterians
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I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.
Wilhelm II
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.
Sarah Bernhardt
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Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
Jacques Lacan
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Drumming is my main thing but I’ve always been the type of person that I can pull a sound out of any instrument if I’m given a couple of minutes to figure it out.
Tim Brennan
Dropkick Murphys
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Ansel Adams
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Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.
Alex Kapranos
Franz Ferdinand
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Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of jazz there had never been one man who influenced all the instruments.
Gary Giddins
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Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.
Al Pacino
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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
Lord Byron
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I grew up with my family in a gypsy neighborhood. There was music all day long until late in the night. My father was a guitar player and composer, my two brothers Ramon and Pepe became musicians. When you hear music every day it becomes like milk that you drink and that you need every day. And even before I started to play an instrument, I knew all the rhythms and was able to distinguish the falsettas' in the compositions.
Paco de Lucía
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Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Eliot Spitzer
