Instruments Quotes - Page 13

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.

Paul Weller

Drones, Bagpipes, World

Source: www.clashmusic.com

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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

Nas

Voice, Sound, Want

Source: www.wbur.org

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Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.

Rob Schwimmer

Music, Play, Trying

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What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved - this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo

Men, Mind, Body

Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with melodies that would sound familiar. Rather than trying to do music that I want to do, I focused on doing music that I want my fans to hear.

Seungri

Guitar, Piano, Trying

"[INTERVIEW] Big Bang member Seungri". Interview with Kwon Seok-jung, en.tenasia.com. August 27, 2013.

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With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so responsive, you're just slipping your hand back and forth.

Bonnie Raitt

Beautiful, Glasses, Guitar

Source: pitchfork.com

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The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.

Vandana Shiva

Order, Creating, Diversity

Source: scottlondon.com

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I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.

Ralph Stanley

Cds, Church, Baptists

"Remembering Bluegrass And Banjo Legend Ralph Stanley". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

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You know, if you use instrument, why, you have to stay on perfect time - timing. And if you do a cappella - I'm so bad, just wonder, you know, maybe I'll sing one verse this way and one verse another. And if you're doing it a capella, you don't have to keep any time. You can just go out as far as you want to with it.

Ralph Stanley

Perfect, Use, Want

"Remembering Bluegrass And Banjo Legend Ralph Stanley". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

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Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.

Martin Schulz

Decision, Democracy, Germany

Source: www.spiegel.de

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I still go to that church now, and they don't believe in instruments in the church. But, my brothers and sisters in the church will listen to me. They will come out to a place to see me play. They will buy all of my records and everything, but they don't believe in bringing that instrument in the church. But, they'll come and watch me somewhere else. Why that is, I don't know.

Ralph Stanley

Brother, Believe, Somewhere Else

Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

Ralph Stanley

Church, Harm

Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care!

David Toop

Play, Done, Care

"The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend and he was making instruments, Paul Burwell and I were making instruments, Evan Parker was making instruments, and we knew Hugh Davies, who was a real pioneer of these amplified instruments.

David Toop

Real, Good Friend, Numbers

"The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

David Toop

Ideas, Anthology

Source: thequietus.com

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When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage. It takes on this incredible feeling of levitating and the molecules spin differently in the moment.

Matt Nathanson

Spiritual, Healing, Player

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I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

War, Fighting, Intelligent

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I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is in heaven, but God is not limited to use only the Church, or only Christians for that matter.

Shane Claiborne

Christian, Dream, Believe

"Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

Shane Claiborne

Kings, Guy, Use

"Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional.

John Petrucci

Guitar, Would Be, Fleas

Source: myglobalmind.com

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I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

John Petrucci

Guitar, Vintage, Yeah

Source: www.rockbook.hu

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To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be around that many people that were at the same point in their lives, who played guitar or whatever instrument - it was just perfect. It was a great environment.

John Petrucci

Kids, College, Guitar

Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.

Daniel Pinchbeck

Ignorance, People, Tools

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At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantasies to be part of that, but I did take my piano lessons quite seriously.

Paul Smith

Dream, School, Play

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Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.

Q-Tip

Moving, Firsts, Kind

Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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