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“I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.”

People Ideas Sound Negative Instruments Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I had known that people would probably have strange reactions to my voice, because I have kind of an unwieldy, difficult voice, but I never thought that anybody would have a problem with the harp. I just assumed... C'mon, it's a beautiful instrument.”

People Kind Problem Beautiful Difficult Voice Known Strange Instruments Reactions Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.”

Wells Play Instruments Guitar Albums Futuristic Drumming

Author:Justin Bieber

“I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.”

I Can Play Able Instruments Tunes

Author:Don DeLillo

“When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.”

“I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.”

Trying Song Sound Pieces Effects Wall Approach Balls Instruments Studios Equipment Emulate Channeling Plugs Crank Knobs

Author:Alan Cohen

“When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.”

Two Opportunity Focus Months Needed Instruments Miles Nine Who I Am Admire Banned Two Months Bakers Nine Months Chet Baker

Author:Eric Cantona

“Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.”

Way Sun Position Authority Instruments Devices Quotations Stolen Borrowed Rhetorical

Author:Justin Kaplan

“Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.”

Earth Common Instruments Intuition Surface Common Sense Reasoning Massive Tested Suspended Satellites

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.”

Has Beens Art Political Used Instruments Visionaries Pageantry

Book:Heaven and hell

Source: Heaven and hell

“The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.”

World Art Nations Wind Drama Instruments Blow Architecture Silver Plastic Graphic Welsh No Drama Wind Instruments

Book:The world of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The world of Evelyn Waugh

“I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes.”

World Kind Play Used Fun Stuff Singing Instruments Rounds Clubs Enjoyed Tunes Spoiled

Author:George Harrison

“Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.”

Should Helping Used Environment Youth Instruments Revolutionary Aggression New Environment

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.”

Giving Persons Doe Law Instruments Plunder

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn't otherwise get to know, in completely free and unconstrained ways.”

People Knows Way Internet Promise Instruments Liberation Democratization

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.”

“There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.”

Listening Periods Instruments Humble

Author:Park Chan-wook

“Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.”

Hands Age Causes Hell Blessed Instruments Rewards Stranger Invention Satisfied Gentleman Receiving Fury Inventor Cursed Cowardly Artillery Devilish

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.”

Ifs Wells Reading Voice Differences Written Poet Instruments Staring Sheets Humming Sheet Music

Author:Robert Pinsky

“The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.”

Risk Citizens Foundation Instruments Profit Transfers Betterment Forged

Author:Richard Cornuelle

“If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic!”

Ifs Stage Instruments Traffic Crowded Bangalore

Author:Trilok Gurtu

“Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.”

Humans Art Matter Choices Social Wise Instruments Inevitable Social Change

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.”

Soul Voice Existence Instruments Guitar Musical Delicate Unpredictable Exquisite Sweetest Reverie Musical Instruments

Author:Andres Segovia

“It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.”

Play Use Sound Easier Logic Instruments Default Synthesizers

Author:D.A. Wallach

“I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.”

People Feels Song Felt Justice Half Singing Instruments Mediums Melody

Author:D.A. Wallach

“As a drummer, you can't fake the instrument. A trumpet, you could be blowing air; a person who plays the trumpet could still say, "Oh, those aren't the right hand motions." On drums, you have to actually hit them. You can't fake it.”

Persons Stills Play Hands Air Instruments Fake Drummer Trumpets

Author:Miles Teller

“I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.”

Ifs Men Humans Kind Force Wish Goal Realizing My Own Decision Animal Roles Subjects Policy Objects Depends Decided Instruments Slave Incapable Doers Conceiving External Forces

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.”

Ideas Computer Music Is Instruments

Author:Alan Kay

“Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.”

“If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.”

Ifs Want Quality Pride Hatred Instruments Envy Cleaning Dharma Ahimsa Ostentation Bad Qualities

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.”

Whole Light Church Mankind Awareness Duty Understood Instruments Unions Unity Missions Faithful Intimate Sacraments Vocation

Author:Pope John Paul II

“I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.”

Giving States Political Wish Greater Authority Highest Police Instruments Criminals Officials Discretion Non Political

Book:Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

Source: Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

“The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.”

Stills War Movement Instruments Trade Unions Resolution Fades Compelled Files Trade Unions

Author:Carl von Ossietzky

“War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.”

War Instruments Progressive

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.”

Way Mind Two Different Seems Speak Stuff Easier Instruments Different Ways Solo Sopranos

Author:Evan Parker

“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.”

Men Instruments Association

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.”

World Force Love Is Creative Mankind Security Instruments Available Quests Peace And Security

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn't really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument.”

People Real Bigs Culture Growing Up Growing Instruments I Realized Hawaii Ukulele

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.”

“I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the case; it's a masterpiece, it's gorgeous, the varnish is still there from 300 years ago. People who know violins, they look at it and it's almost like a face.”

People Knows Years Looks Stills Faces Sleep Cases Bed Years Ago Instruments Masterpiece Gorgeous Violin

Author:Joshua Bell

“There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations.”

Stills Certain Levels Benefits Instruments Operations Manipulate Rogues Liability Oversight Coordinates

Author:Ted Gup

“I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would always have liked to play in a band. I would always have liked to be a substantial writer, to write country music for big singers. I had all sorts of proclivities, but I never had any big success.”

Way Writing Book Country Play Bigs Half Television Band Instruments Singers Ass My Way

Author:Chuck Barris

“Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the instrument developed and evolved over, like, hundreds of years, our instrument all remained the same.”

Years Different Able Wanted Opposites Instruments Classical Music Persian

Author:Hafez Nazeri

“The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.”

Important Instruments Musical Invention Printing Musical Instruments

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion”

Body Creation Illusion Instruments Unending

Author:Kabir

“I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.”

Thinking Kind Different Real Shows Natural Player Waste Tradition Instruments Jazz Different Kinds Extensions Improvisation Composing Predetermined Different Kinds Of Music

Author:Richard Grossman

“I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.”

Persons I Can Play Draws Instruments Sticks Musical Making Money Knack Musical Instruments

Author:Tilman J Fertitta

“My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.”

Growing Up Growing Player Dad Band Instruments Musical My Dad Bass Latino Basements Musical Instruments Bass Players

Author:Lindi Ortega

“I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.”

Lessons Instruments Guitar Mum Music Lessons

Author:Brandy Clark

“In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.”

Made Stills Soul Used Culture Force Sound Animal Heard Sacrifice Music Is Singing Instruments Musical Woods Tone Musical Instruments Generator

Author:Joscelyn Godwin

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