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“I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.”

I Can Play Instruments Horns Trumpets Keyboards Horny

Author:Dick Dale

“I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.”

Thinking Mean Instruments Rate Chains Ties Food Chain

Author:Peabo Bryson

“You are the light of the world. You are an instrument of the Divine. You are the greatest miracle in the world. Life is graced by your presence.”

World Light Life Is Divine Miracle Instruments Your Presence Light Of The World World Life

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.”

Ifs Player Emotional Color Expression Huge Instruments Jazz Range Piano Dynamics Emotional Expression

Author:Gary Burton

“After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.”

Real Past Instruments Historical Guides Maps Analogies Navigate Converting

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.”

Writing Instruments Guitar Great Writing Synthesizers

Author:Andy Summers

“Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.”

Sound Modern Europe Instruments One Direction

Author:Marc Ribot

“I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.”

Thinking Doe Voice Instruments

Author:Evan Parker

“I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.”

Thinking Voice Lines Approach Function Instruments Structure Purity

Author:Evan Parker

“I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Voice Instruments Logical Orchestra Symphony Saxophone Symphony Orchestras Baritones

Author:Gerry Mulligan

“The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra”

Instruments Solo Orchestra Saxophone Mulligans

Author:Gerry Mulligan

“People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time”

People Kind Use Evolution Innovation Instruments Nonsense

Author:Gerry Mulligan

“Use me as an example of an instrument of change.”

Use Example Instruments Using Me

Author:Michael Vick

“When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!”

Failing Stage Instruments Destroyed

Author:Trent Reznor

“In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.”

Turns Natural Instruments Studios Doing You Blanche

Author:John Cale

“Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.”

Men Government Liberty Instruments Chiefs

Book:The Conscience of a Conservative

Source: The Conscience of a Conservative

“I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.”

People Thinking Years Firsts White Instruments Southern Ironic Banjos Blackface

Author:Bela Fleck

“I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.”

Two Helping Instruments Inspired Guitar Piano Help Me Back And Forth

Author:Sean Lennon

“My first instrument was a little blue ukele.”

Firsts Littles Blue Instruments

Author:Billy Ocean

“Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.”

Men Soul Character Body Happens Certain Instruments Affected Detachment Parts Of The Body

Book:Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman

“Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.”

Enough Body Able Greater Instruments Musical Oneself Surrender Musical Instruments

Author:Marion Woodman

“The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.”

Humans Voice Perfect Instruments Human Voice

Author:Arvo Part

“And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early freedom? We say this, that the sin our fathers sinned was that they did not trust liberty wholly. They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be 'a necessary evil,' and the moment the compromise was made, the whole misbegotten monster of our present tyranny began to grow. Instruments which are set up to safeguard rights become the very whip with which the free are struck.”

Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

“The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.”

Force Liberty Gone Revolution Shapes Instruments Blow Defense Tyranny Mental Power

Book:Anarchism and American Traditions

Source: Anarchism and American Traditions

“Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.”

Knows Giving Feels Art Stories Reality Emotion Known Awareness Shapes Instruments Chaos Confusion Phenomenon Aesthetic Epiphany

Author:Robert McKee

“Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?”

Loses Television Smart Instruments Being Smart

Author:Adolph Zukor

“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.”

Source: Torture Garden

“What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God’s special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is nonessential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord.”

May Hands Found Prayer Simple Behinds Lord Worst Special Letting Go Essentials Empty Instruments Embrace Who We Are Special Gifts

Author:Joseph Bernardin

“You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.”

Streets Walking News Instruments Musical Outlets Musical Instruments

Author:Johnny Borrell

“This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.”

Men Wells Self Done Play Style Instruments Honestly One Man Switching

Author:Jimmy Rushing

“The harmonica is a great instrument.”

Instruments Harmonicas

Author:Toots Thielemans

“The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.”

Ifs Knows Use Know How Military Battle Instruments Valuable

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.”

“Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.”

Kind Instruments

Author:Anatoly Chubais

“There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.”

Should States Use Able Understanding Economy Demand Instruments Implementation

Author:Anatoly Chubais

“Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.”

Ideas Play Song Instruments

Author:Ze Frank

“Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.”

“In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.”

Voice Cases Study Instruments Piano

Author:Alma Gluck

“The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.”

Eye House Names Instruments Longing Stores Department Household Coins Clerks Ailments Dismay Dismayed Department Stores

Author:William Christopher Handy

“Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.”

World Mind Fall Changed Instruments Falling In Love Musical Setting Settings Musical Instruments

Book:Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy

Source: Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy

“There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.”

Want Should Trying Reason Play Voice Possibility Pure Instruments Reason Why Strings Solo Intonation

Author:Lara St. John

“If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.”

Ifs Sound Term Music Century Music Is Organization Instruments Sacred Meaningful Piano Substitutes Reserved Nineteenth Century Inspirational Music

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

“Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.”

Music Criticism Instruments Prepared Practicals Piano Composing

Author:John Cage

“Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.”

Humans Has Beens Powerful Knowledge Logic Mathematics Instruments Math Mathematical Agency Mathematician Math Education

Book:RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY

Source: RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY

“Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.”

Men Made Seems Instruments Musical Deceit Musical Instruments

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from an instrument it tends to pull them in. You have to listen a little more attentively. High frequency instruments hit you so hard, after a while the ear has a tendency to want to shut down. And that's what happens. I've been able to observe very carefully how people tend to get very tired of listening to high frequencies a lot.”

People Want Years Littles Hard Happens Able Audience Listening Musician Lows Ears Down And Instruments Tired Tendencies Observing Frequency

Author:Bennie Maupin

“Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.”

Knows Play Know How Source Pressure Instruments Studios Relaxation

Author:Jackson Browne

“You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.”

Knows Play Mother Sides Brother Instruments Seven Sister

Author:Mel Tillis

“Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.”

Littles Instruments Compromise Cheating Acoustics

Author:Richard Thompson

“Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.”

Trying Looks Instruments New Things New Day Trying New Things

Author:Lionel Hampton