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“In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.”

Needs Years Long Real Courses Easy Simple Meditation Twenties Instruments Holiday Beard Transcendental Transcendental Meditation Sari

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music. I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.”

Thinking Different My Own Class Pieces Band Instruments Teenager Power Of Music Transcending

Author:Agnes Obel

“If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.”

Ifs Play Instruments Piano

Author:E-40

“The world is changing considerably and the United Nations must change too. It must become an instrument which responds to the needs of the international community of the year 2000, which will be quite different from that of 1945.”

World Needs Years Different Nations Community United Instruments International United Nations International Community

Author:Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

“Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesian - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist." It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist."”

Thinking Way Feels Littles Whole Body Eye Artist Bits Study Century Perception Little Bit Argument Instruments Visuals 20th Century Humane Humane Way

Author:Vik Muniz

“The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely environmentalists being paid - but a lot of people are acting for something other than financial compensation. So if the tar sands pipeline doesn't get made, it's because a huge amount of people are doing something that doesn't involve remuneration, money, etc., because we're not actually the self-interested financial instruments that economists like to imagine we are.”

“I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.”

Thinking Book Ideas Understood Economics Instruments Lenses

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.”

Ifs Writing Hands Fall Born Instruments Fruit Void Graphic Ripe Obedient Ripe Fruit

Author:Paul Klee

“God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.”

Play Able Instruments

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.”

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Author:Talib Kweli

“Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.”

Way May Made Running Purpose Risk Instruments Efficient Psychoanalysis Aggravation Degrade Prestigious

Author:Jacques Lacan

“Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.”

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Author:Steve Lacy

“You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.”

Use Instruments Justify

Author:Steve Lacy

“Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.”

Reality Spirit Instruments Photographer Photograph Revelations Domination

Book:Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963

Source: Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963

“Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.”

Thinking Should Artist Instruments Storytelling Cosmic

Author:Ted Lange

“If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.”

Ifs Should Mind Humans Body Possibility Objects Huge Computer Instruments Musical Your Body Range Devices Allowing Human Experience Expressive Precedent Interfaces Musical Instruments

Author:Jaron Lanier

“Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.”

Wells Young Taught Method Instruments Musical Piano Formal Musical Instruments

Author:Hugh Laurie

“When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.”

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Author:Spike Lee

“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.”

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Author:Primo Levi

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

Men Turns Independence Instruments

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.”

Use Social Progress Failing Movement Weak Instruments Irrelevant Symptoms Social Movements Statesmanship

Book:A Preface to Politics

Source: A Preface to Politics

“I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.”

Moving Sports Enjoy Singing Instruments Athlete Horns Trumpets

Author:Roger Bannister

“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!”

Men World Littles Doe Pay Instruments Sensitive Significance

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”

Wise Circumstances Weak Instruments Hard Times Rulers Glitter

Book:Rory O'More. Revised

Source: Rory O'More. Revised

“I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.”

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Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.”

Trying Kind Might Sound Effort Limits Findings Illusion Instruments Framing

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.”

Form Memories Brain Tasks Connections Instruments Muscles Rehearsing Muscle Memory Imagining Yourself

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”

“The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.”

Way Play Kids School Desire Band High School Program Instruments Majority Faults Hip Hop Hips Hops Public School

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?”

Children Accepting Streets Wall Instruments Sells Mortgage Default Accept Me

Author:Steve Martin

“The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.”

Past Instruments Capture Our Past Banjos

Author:Steve Martin

“I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.”

Instruments Singers

Author:Paul McCartney

“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”

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Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.”

Ifs Men Should Believe Stills Done Nations Fate Atheism Essentials Eternal Instruments Blind Atheist Jew Judaism Hebrew Hands Tied

Book:The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811

“I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.”

Thinking Done Play Song Attention Knowing Instruments Musical Focused Producers Not Knowing Hook Musicianship Focused Attention

Author:Moby

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.”

Actors Instruments Supposed To Be Sensitive

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?”

Ifs Care Actors Inspiring Instruments Supposed To Be Sensitive What If Violin Isaac

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.”

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Author:Alanis Morissette

“I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.”

Thinking Way Humans Body Human Beings Views Instruments Athlete Invites Better Ways Inviting Ornaments

Author:Alanis Morissette

“I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.”

Knows Way Sometimes Shows Audience Laughing Journey Honest Singing Instruments My Way Songwriters My Journey Virtuoso

Author:Jason Mraz

“I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.”

Ifs Giving I Can Play Minutes Give Me Instruments Brittany

Author:Brittany Murphy

“Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.”

Country Cities Musician Instruments Canada Ingredients Dishes Indigenous Cuisine Toronto

Author:Mike Myers

“You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'”

Want Believe Humans Character Actors Human Beings Instruments Who I Am Agendas Want Me You Want Me Bollywood

Author:Mira Nair

“Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.”

Knows Hands Loses Arms Let Me Instruments Legs Surgeons Haste Me Alone Horatio

Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

“My body is an instrument for me to use.”

Use Body Instruments

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.”

Ifs Bigs Able Wanted Used Behinds Instruments Guitar Mike

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Ideas Song Sound Instruments Productions Finished Solitary Vocal Polish Basics

Author:Gary Numan

“A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.”

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Author:Conor Oberst

“The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.”

I Can Play Home Song Instruments Piano

Author:Yoko Ono

“I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.”

Hands Given Dying Slavery Instruments Faculty Assistance Villainy Writs Of Assistance

Author:James Otis

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