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“The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.”

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Book:Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families

Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families

“I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.”

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Book:Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews

Source: Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews

“You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar.”

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Author:Pat Metheny

“The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.”

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Book:Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography

Source: Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography

“Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.”

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Author:Benny Goodman

“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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Book:Reggie

Source: Reggie

“It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done on the piano can easily be done on the recorder! She helped me with technique and was just as critical about my playing as she was with her own. I think that has been one of my fortunes.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the embouchure, the reed, etc. But with the recorder, I receive an immediate response from the instrument. This is something that attracted me to the instrument, that I could immediately feel the response of what I was doing.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“I think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the music; they are more interested to see if the musician actually has something to say.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural or the easiest. I enjoy the challenges - especially those that come with composers who have written contemporary music for the recorder.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality is that, while physical coordination of monuments is easier than it's ever been, property boundaries often need to be determined based on evidence and plans that are old, decrepit, and done with different technology and expectations than we have today.”

“Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!”

“How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he's young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.”

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Author:A. R. Rahman

“These are the Rad instruments that are dying out in India. So, it's going well and I think now we are increasing the number of kids we have taught and of course we are helping out with other things too. It's based in India now. [The idea is to] perfect it in one place and then we'll expand.”

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Author:A. R. Rahman

“It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It keeps building and building when you add the lyrics, the instruments, the vocals until you finally reach the finished song other people can enjoy.”

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Author:Manika

“The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument. So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.”

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Author:Al Kooper

“A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.”

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Book:Let's see: writings on art from the New Yorker

Source: Let's see: writings on art from the New Yorker

“In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.”

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Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives her the power to reproduce herself.”

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Author:Louis Daguerre

“I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.”

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Author:Leon Golub

“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”

“Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.”

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Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery.”

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Author:Marian Seldes

“We do not worship the Prophet. We worship God our Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. But we acknowledge the Prophet; we proclaim him; we respect him; we reverence him as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty in restoring to the earth the ancient truths of the divine gospel, together with the priesthood through which the authority of God is exercised in the affairs of His Church and for the blessing of His people.”

“The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.”

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Author:Brian Eno

“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.”

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Author:Mick Jagger

“I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.”

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Author:Ne-Yo

“Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones.”

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Author:Art Pepper

“As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.”

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Author:Troy Andrews

“[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to him, you say 'yes, that's Sweets' and you automatically smile. This is really unique. He changed the way how to play this instrument.”

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Author:Clark Terry

“My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces were ways to, literally, throw myself into my environment. They were photographs not of an activity, but through an activity; the activity (once I planted a camera in the instrument of that activity - once I, simply, held a camera in my hands) could produce a picture.”

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Author:Vito Acconci

“Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.”

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Book:Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs

Source: Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs

“I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.”

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Author:Gabriel Orozco

“Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and get an image.”

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Author:Thomas Roma

“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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Author:Dennis Stock

“All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.”

Author:Mother Teresa

“Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr., or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to human beings is not examined in school?”

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Author:Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

“I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.”

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Book:Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

“Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.”

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Author:William J. Seymour

“I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.”

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Author:Lester Bowie

“[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”

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Author:Patrick Henry

“More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way.”

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Author:Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

“The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.”

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Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

“To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.”

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Author:Maya Angelou