Instruments Quotes - Page 12

• I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

  Frank Fairfield

  Years, Play, Knowing

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Voice, Sometimes

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.

  Rokia Traore

  Dream, Mind, Singing

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.

  Rokia Traore

  Guitar, Years, Missing

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her own sounds and approaches. I think it actually has the same restrictions as using the piano or any other instrument in [a traditional] way.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Opportunity, Thinking, Piano

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.

  Lita Ford

  Play, People, Musical

  "The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on "Living Like a Runaway". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

  Max Tundra

  Gigs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

  Max Tundra

  Musical, Musical Instruments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

  Victoria Legrand

  Makeup, Piano, Said

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.

  Victoria Legrand

  Girl, Coffee, School

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

  John Darnielle

  Voice, People, Hearing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people that were making music that weren't necessarily very good at their instruments, it was more about the ideas they had than how well they could play and sing.

  Doug Martsch

  Ideas, Rocks, Views

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once I established it as my unique tool, it was like, now I'm going to master it like a guitar.

  Jamie Lidell

  Unique, Guitar, Tools

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.

  Patrick Wolf

  Guitar, Natural Elements, Way

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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• Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!

  Jude Law

  Law, Play, Three

  "#ManCrushMonday: Jude Law". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 14, 2016.

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• Saying that you've got acoustic instruments and that's traditional and so people will think it's more intimate, that will always be the case. It's a more intimate sound, so it's going to sound more direct whatever you're singing about.

  Alison Goldfrapp

  Thinking, People, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

  Prefuse 73

  Mother, Play, Parks

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.

  Danielle Dutton

  Book, Wind, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I regret my lack of options. I regret being painted into a corner and having that be the only instrument to get me from point A to point B.

  T.I.

  Regret, I Regret, Corners

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace.

  Lizz Wright

  Emotional, Long, Coughing

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an ever-increasing level of complexity. At some point, this complexity reached a point where even the creators of the derivatives themselves didn't understand them.

  John L. Casti

  Levels, Derivatives, Financial

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even if you play an open string, you feel it.

  Tod Machover

  Play, Body, Size

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.

  Tod Machover

  Thinking, Double Bass, Effort

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

  Tod Machover

  Ideas, Feelings, Important

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

  Tod Machover

  Mean, Keys, Ivory

  Source: bigthink.com

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