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“Work with sound until you are absolutely amazed that you can produce such a sound and it seems to you that you are just the instrument to which the divine pied piper blows the whisper of the incantations of his magic spell.”

Seems Sound Magic Produce Divine Instruments Blow Spells Amazed Pipers Pied Piper

Author:Vilayat Inayat Khan

“The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.”

Way Writing I Can Body Song Focus Fundamentals Instruments Your Body Bunch Rhythm Swings New Ways Groove New Songs

Author:Stone Gossard

“You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.”

Way Wells Mean Persons Play Instruments Carrie

Author:Miles Davis

“I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.”

Mean Play Creative Skills Instruments Depth Impulse Tone Muscles Endurance Flexibility Pathways Imposing Responsiveness

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts as a prism through which all musical and non-musical sounds may be filtered. The grunts of sheep, the braying of mules, the popping of champagne corks, the sighs of unrequited love, not to mention the full lexicon of sounds available to all other instruments-including whistles, scrapes, bleatings, caresses, thuds, hoots, plus sweet and sour pluckings-fall within the sovereignty of this most bare and dissembling chameleon.”

“The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.”

Humans Heart Long Seems Order Sound Mystery Creation Instruments Chaos Organs Human Heart Primal Stirring Proceeding

Author:Richard Wagner

“The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.”

Littles Reason Facts Used Artist Voice Communication Goes On Tools Instruments Singers Great Art Great Artist

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.”

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.”

Whole Relation Instruments Productions Bourgeoisie Communist Manifesto

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

“I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.”

People Trying Stills Play Stories Process Four Instruments Strings

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.”

Lying Speech Mouths Blessed Instruments Commandments Idle Truth Love

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.”

Firsts Heart May Made Literature My Heart Sight Mirrors Instruments Rose Flames Breasts Fierce Pluck

Author:Muhammad Iqbal

“My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.”

Ifs Sound Black Keys Instruments My Favorite Piano Mules Black Keys

Author:Christian Louboutin

“We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.”

Asks Late Instruments Speed Flying Clock Too Late Slow Down

Book:Themes and episodes

Source: Themes and episodes

“Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.”

Philosophy Earth Remember Heaven Ready Succeed Doctors Instruments Chains Heavenly Links Smallest Emergencies Heaven And Earth Handy Scalpels

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.”

Whole Break Instruments Careful Gentle Be Careful Rust

Author:Benedict of Nursia

“Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature.”

People Thinking World Real Dream Body House Instruments Your Body Unreal Atman

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.”

Thinking Use Instruments Pot Squares Hammers Glue Chisels

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”

Ifs World Song Universe Shapes Harmony Instruments Notes Valuable Command Tone Vibrations Orchestration

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring how to use the science's modern instruments, tries to study the life of what is infinitely small with telescopes and the life of what is infinitely large with microscopes.”

Trying Use Fall Mistake Study Modern Pure Instruments Reasoning Telescopes Transcendental Microscopes Same Mistakes

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!”

World Years Waiting Half Audience Pieces Four Wonderful Strange Creatures Instruments Billions Evolve Dirt Wonderful World

Book:The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

Source: The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

“As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward and it's all linear.”

Way Moving Next Realizing Player Instruments Structure Notes Moving Forward Melody Chords Linear Intervals Navigate Vertical

Author:David Sanborn

“Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.”

Country Elements Instruments Jazz Western Folks Acoustics Western Music

Author:Van Morrison

“...the Lord of the Universe carries the entire burden of this world. You imagine you do. You can hand all your burdens over to His care. Whatever you have to do, you will be made an instrument for doing it at the right time. Do not think you cannot do it unless you have the desire to do it. Desire does not give you the strength for doing. The entire strength is the Lord's.”

Thinking World Giving Doe Made Hands Care Desire Universe Lord Imagine This World Instruments Burden Carrie Right Time

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.”

Important Use Economy Machines Increase Instruments Velocity

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

“All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.”

Humans States Helping Courses Human Beings Students Method Instruments Technique

Author:Paul Brunton

“The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.”

Men Humans Reason Energy Human Beings Deals Instruments Flaws Bubbles Organisms Inventory

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.”

Thinking Giving Different Use Change Design Tools Instruments Devices Inventor

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.”

Sometimes Use Wish Sound Issues Taste Ears Instruments Historical Colour Judged Timbre

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun.”

Years Age Universe Fun Periods Instruments Jazz Golden Bass Golden Age

Author:Geddy Lee

“To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's not feminine.”

Play Use Arms Instruments Legs Spread Feminine

Author:Patty Schemel

“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.”

Ifs Mind Turns Feet Ready Six Stronger Instruments Shoes Pairs Variation Pointe

Author:Nina Ananiashvili

“Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.”

Men Leader Instruments Cancer Great Leader Assassins

Book:The Manchurian Candidate

Source: The Manchurian Candidate

“I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.”

Kind Different Joy Personality Instruments Selfish Playing Instruments

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.”

People Party Fairs Bases Police Election Instruments Cells Beaten Arrested

Author:Raila Odinga

“Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.”

Firsts Purpose Instruments Longing Musical Be Good Tennis Wrestling Skiing Musical Instruments

Author:John Irving

“I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.”

Ifs Want Feels Play Emotion Air Instruments Fingers Invisible Right Thing

Author:Jill Scott

“Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.”

Ifs Thinking Should Musician Instruments Horizon Drummer

Author:Stewart Copeland

“Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.”

Bird Resources Instruments Idle Elegant Pastime

Book:Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin

Source: Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin

“The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.”

Two Instruments Musical Musical Instruments Clarinet

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.”

People Has Beens Powerful Draws Instruments Riches Saving Hymns Instruments Of God

Author:Billy Graham

“It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.”

People Political Democracy Becoming Solutions Instruments Boxes Conclusion Secure Surprising Boast Ballots Parliamentary Parliamentary Democracy

Author:Tony Benn

“Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.”

Mind May Seems Enemy Teacher Trouble Students Instruments Curse Promoting Textbooks Dogmatism Blight

Book:The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

Source: The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

“The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.”

Thinking Mind Doe Body Consciousness Tree Divine Instruments Mind And Body Sensing

Author:Adyashanti

“Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality.”

Feels Individual Emotion Break Wonderful Capacity Destruction Instruments Longing Torture Dissatisfaction Exploding Ping

Book:The Book of Daniel: A Novel

Source: The Book of Daniel: A Novel

“My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.”

Children Mother Father Half Instruments Isolated Barbarians Blunt

Book:A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

Source: A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

“The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.”

People Men Mind Has Beens Running Today Cities Modern Weapons Destruction Towns Cameras Instruments Photograph Factories Frightening Warfare Ruined Spy Bombing Mapping Forerunners

Author:John Steinbeck

“We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.”

Should Instruments Carrie Compounds Microscopes

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.”

Writing Wells Ends Artist Break Achieve Century Painting Expression Photography Aim Instruments Blind Blow Appearance Invention Mortals Imitation Assured Nineteenth Century Recklessness

Author:Andre Breton

“Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.”

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