Instrument Quotes
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I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
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When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!
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Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.
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The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.
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All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.
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The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
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I love that I can worship and express my love for Jesus through the instrument that God has put in my hands. That moment every night on tour when hundreds of people respond to the invitation of Jesus, makes it all worth while.
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Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
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A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
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When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.
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The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
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Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.
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You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
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We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
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The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.
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Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
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The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.
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While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).
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Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.
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My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.
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One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.
