Instruments Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

  R. Murray Schafer

  Hands, Secret, Trying

  R. Murray Schafer (1993). “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Freeman Dyson

  Play, Athletic, Olympics

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• 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.

  Ernest Sosa

  Reading, Data, Needs

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Internet, Effects

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• 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.

  Manmohan Singh

  United States, Pakistan, World

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• 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.

  Paul McCartney

  Ideas, Two, Add

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Sports, Reading, Discipline

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• 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.

  Ry Cooder

  Mean, People, Tape

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Justin Adams

  Hard Times, Sound, Make Sense

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Cass McCombs

  Thinking, Play, Musician

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Petra Haden

  Song, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Petra Haden

  Song, Writing, Bridges

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Richie Faulkner

  Team, Practice, Effort

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• 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.

  Kris Allen

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• 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."

  Dale Jamieson

  Moving, Animal, Agriculture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  Dale Jamieson

  Goal, Doe, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 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.

  Amos Oz

  Book, Musical, Different

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Different musical instruments provide for different music.

  Amos Oz

  Musical, Different, Musical Instruments

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Musical, Important

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Thinking, Kkk

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• 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.

  Nina Simone

  Expression, Play, Voice

  Source: boscarol.com

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

  James Paxton

  Perfect, Punk, Masters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  James Paxton

  Play, Perfect, Groups

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Caleb Shomo

  Song, Writing, Math

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• 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.

  Michael Snow

  Piano, Trying, Monsters

  Source: offscreen.com

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