Instrument Quotes
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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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We were trying to get a sound on an instrument and I said it should sound robotic and he said, ‘You mean humanesque?’ I thought it was a good word and used it for the title.
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Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
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I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on.
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If I was to pick out a new instrument to learn how to play, I thought the didgeridoo would be cool and not a lot of people play it.
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I think the basics can help you… practice, being good at your instrument, knowing how to play and interact with other musicians, play within your situation.
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All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.
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Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
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Create good habits away from your instrument; use strangeness.
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During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was 'pilot error,' but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. As it had been and would be.
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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 trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.
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Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.
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That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.
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I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.
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Will is an instrument of power.
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The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.
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O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
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God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
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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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Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.
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My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.
