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“It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.”

Mind Quality Influence Lows Instruments

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.”

Needs Mind Soul Body Instruments Your Body Your Soul Tunes

Author:Abby Brammell

“If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.”

Ifs Littles Spirit Song Type Instruments

Author:Van Morrison

“Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.”

Ifs Want May Matter Artist Happenings Instruments

Author:Van Morrison

“Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.”

Stills Self Eye Spirit Behinds Ears Instruments Senses

Book:THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil

Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil

“String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.”

Want Should Theory Instruments Seven Instance Dimensions Strings Just Listen String Theory

Author:Fabiola Gianotti

“When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe. The rest, 95 percent is dark. Dark meaning, first of all, not visible to our instrument. Second, dark also indicates our ignorance. We don't know what's the composition of this part of the universe.”

Knows Firsts Looks Eye Universe Dark Five Ignorance Percent Instruments Visible Composition Telescopes

Author:Fabiola Gianotti

“The fight against terrorism is something very real and practical for us. This is a fight to preserve our territorial integrity, and in this sense we need to have the instruments and create an environment in Russia that would make it impossible for the international terrorist organisations to achieve the aims they have set for themselves here.”

Needs Real Fighting Environment Impossible Achieve Integrity Aim Instruments International Terrorism Terrorist Russia Practicals Preserves Organisation Territorial

Author:Vladimir Putin

“However, there is a fundamental difference between the issue related to Japan's history and our negotiations with China. What is it all about? The Japanese issue resulted from World War II and is stipulated in the international instruments on the outcomes of World War II, while our discussions on border issues with our Chinese counterparts have nothing to do with World War II or any other military conflicts. This is the first, or rather, I should say, the second point.”

“They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our economy as well, maybe even more urgent bearing in mind the problem that we cannot yet deal with, namely the prevalence of the oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation and, as a result, dependence on revenue from oil and gas.”

Mind Firsts Wells Problem Results Deals Leader Economy Europe Instruments Western Financial Oil Gas Dependence Revenue Urgent Misuse Federation Oil And Gas Injection Western Europe

Author:Vladimir Putin

“We do not have to borrow in the external market, but we have used and are using this traditional instrument in international financial relations.”

Used Relation Instruments Financial International Traditional

Author:Vladimir Putin

“We have issued financial instruments in the past, and there is a strong demand for them, it is simply unnecessary now.”

Past Strong Demand Instruments Financial Unnecessary

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful instrument of imbuing value in an object than parting with it.”

Way Facts Seems Values Loss Powerful Objects Instruments Depth Parting Better Ways

Author:Vera Nazarian

“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.”

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Book:Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

Source: Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

“Communism is not only a national belief but it implies the giving up of real property especially of landed property, and the Jews, being international, have never acquired the taste for real property. They prefer money, which is an instrument of power.”

Giving Real Belief Taste Giving Up Instruments Property International Jew Communism Real Property

Author:Leon V. DePoncins

“It's a funny thing, if I could choose anything to do, it wouldn't be to be in front of a camera because I've spent so much of my time, so much of my life trying to get really good at writing songs and playing instruments.”

Ifs Writing Trying Song Fronts Cameras Instruments My Time If I Could Get Real Funny Things Writing Songs Playing Instruments

Author:Jarryd James

“Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.”

Television Divine Instruments Gods Will Gift From God

Author:Philo Farnsworth

“I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!”

Stills Play Running Courses Planets Instruments Ridiculous Traditional Our Planet Satellites Anachronism Bassoon

Author:Witold Lutosławski

“The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.”

Trying Body Hands Earth Form Secret Divine Instruments Strings Tuning

Book:The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World

Source: The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World

“I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.”

Knows Way Feels Play Enjoy Know How Prove Performances Instruments Olympics Athletic Theorems Calculating Athletic Performance

Author:Freeman Dyson

“There is no need for the scientist to go into whether an observation was made, nor into the who, what, when, or where. The data on which scientific theorizing is based are rather the propositional contents of the instrument readings recorded, or the facts detected thereby.”

Needs Made Facts Reading Scientist Instruments Observation Data

Author:Ernest Sosa

“Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.”

Technology Effects Internet Instruments

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I sincerely hope that whatever influence the United States has in Pakistan, it will convince Pakistan that using terrorism as an instrument of state policy has no place in the world that we want to build.”

World Want States United United States Influence Policy Instruments Terrorism Convince Pakistan Sincerely Places In The World

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.”

Two Ideas Happens Three Four Instruments Add Mathematical Fours

Author:Paul McCartney

“I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.”

Reading Sports Discipline Instruments Musical Musical Instruments

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.”

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Author:Ry Cooder

“In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.”

Hard Sound Instruments Make Sense Hard Times Engineers

Author:Justin Adams

“I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.”

Thinking Play Musician Instruments

Author:Cass McCombs

“I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don't play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don't know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn't know anything about how to work a 4-track.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Years Mean Play School Song Know How Records High School Instruments Guitar Track Staring Violin Keyboards Recorders Cassettes After High School

Author:Petra Haden

“I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.”

Knows Way Want Writing Wells I Can Song Voice Know How Instruments Bridges Etc Verses Chorus

Author:Petra Haden

“Practice. Listen. Use you ears. And as Rob [Halford] said, that team effort. You can learn your instrument in your room, but being in a band is more than playing your instrument.”

Said Use Rooms Effort Practice Team Band Ears Instruments Your Room Team Effort

Author:Richie Faulkner

“I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.”

People Thinking Writing Play America Song Voice Instruments Musicality

Author:Kris Allen

“We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."”

“We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.”

Should Doe Helping Use Goal Realizing Economic Economics Instruments

Author:Dale Jamieson

“The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.”

Ifs Book Different Language Instruments Musical Hebrew Musical Instruments Different Books

Author:Amos Oz

“Different musical instruments provide for different music.”

Different Instruments Musical Musical Instruments Different Music

Author:Amos Oz

“My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.”

Writing Important Facts Instruments Musical Hebrew Musical Instruments

Author:Amos Oz

“When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.”

People Thinking Believe Use Suffering Black Crosses Instruments Symbols Contradiction Black People Reconciliation Obedient Fiery Emblems Kkk

Author:Desmond Tutu

“My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.”

Perfect Masters Music Is Instruments Punk Perfect For Me Punk Music

Author:James Paxton

“A punk group is perfect because literally the lead singer doesn't play anything - he just sings and screams and jumps around; his body is his instrument.”

Play Body Perfect Groups Instruments Singers Scream Punk

Author:James Paxton

“The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.”

Writing Whole Problem Song Records Instruments Albums Math Edits

Author:Caleb Shomo

“The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.”

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Author:Michael Snow

“The idea that recording itself is an instrument.”

Ideas Instruments

Author:Michael Snow

“What happened on "As Cool As I Am" was, you know how in the `90s, "the personal is political, the political is personal"? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.”

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Author:Dar Williams

“To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.”

Sports Effort Instruments Compare Effortless

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you have completely mastered the instrument, the music plays for you. But you still have to keep practicing. And it takes an awful lot of practice. Nonetheless, if you diligently practice, hours and hours and hours and hours, you probably won't get it. You'll probably just end up hurting your fingers.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture and they will not be engaged in murder or carry out other illegal activities.”

Knows Force Activity Relation Murder Instruments Clinton International Chiefs Engaged Torture Illegal Commanders International Relations Transactions Armed Forces Commander In Chief Illegal Activities

Author:John R. Allen

“I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury.”

“I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is: They are bringing to me their performance skills and their unusual instruments, which I'm relishing. They're really beautiful. The other thing is improvisation - these players improvise and they do it very beautifully, as a matter of fact.”

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Author:Pauline Oliveros