Instruments Quotes - Page 16

• The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

  Michael Snow

  Ideas

  Source: offscreen.com

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• What happened on "As Cool As I Am" was, you know how in the `90s, "the personal is political, the political is personal"? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.

  Dar Williams

  Real, Political, Choices

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Sports, Effort, Compare

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• When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you have completely mastered the instrument, the music plays for you. But you still have to keep practicing. And it takes an awful lot of practice. Nonetheless, if you diligently practice, hours and hours and hours and hours, you probably won't get it. You'll probably just end up hurting your fingers.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Hurt, Practice, Play

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• With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture and they will not be engaged in murder or carry out other illegal activities.

  John R. Allen

  Illegal Activities, Murder, Clinton

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is: They are bringing to me their performance skills and their unusual instruments, which I'm relishing. They're really beautiful. The other thing is improvisation - these players improvise and they do it very beautifully, as a matter of fact.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Beautiful, Player, Skills

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Computer, Transfers, Happened

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Keyboards, Mice, Performances

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence.

  Reggie Watts

  Creativity, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Samples are kind of my instrument of choice.

  Girl Talk

  Choices, Kind, Sample

  Source: uproxx.com

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• For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

  Trent Reznor

  Trying, Identity, Technique

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

  Bill Walton

  Dad, Sight, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [John Boswell] introduction of the concept of "gay" (in the way he defines it) provides us both with a useful instrument of research and at the same time a better comprehension of how people actually conceive of themselves and their sexual behavior.

  Michel Foucault

  Gay, People, Way

  Source: www.questia.com

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• One of the things I love about negotiations is that you have to be able to play it like an orchestra, different instruments for different circumstances. There's sweetness, and encouragement, and cajoling. There's pressure, there's drama, there's ultimatums.

  Susan Rice

  Encouragement, Drama, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one would suppose, by the emergence of the remarkable instrument of language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Animal, Doubt, Might

  Source: libcom.org

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• Jesus was not just godly, godlike, God hungry, God focused, or God worshipping. He was God. Not merely a servant of God, instrument of God, or friend of God, but Jesus was God.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Godly, Servant Of God

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Donald Trump is an instrument of a Power bigger than himself, and bigger than all of the power that's in America today, or in the world today.

  Louis Farrakhan

  America, World, Today

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.

  Bruno Mars

  Player, Guitar, Talking

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• There's just something really, really timeless about live instruments. There's just something special about them that you can't really duplicate or grasp without including live instruments.

  Miguel

  Special, Timeless, Duplicate

  Source: us.napster.com

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• At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your parents signed for you and vouched for you. Then after you had it for a little while you could decide if you were interested in taking lessons or you could also get your own gear. Or you could turn that instrument in for another one and try something else. So that's how I got my hands on the guitar.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Book, School, Guitar

  Source: somedayprods.com

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• For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love watches, and I love how they're constructed.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Beautiful, Watches, Care

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.

  Danny Jacob

  Song, Writing, Player

  Source: www.axs.com

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• It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has not ratified three main instruments, has not ratified the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, or the Convention on the Rights of the Child, or the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and we could have so much richer a debate and dialogue on international human rights standards if the superpower would sign up to the agenda.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Children, Rights

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Everybody now has a camera, whether it is a professional instrument or just part of a phone. Landscape photography is a pastime enjoyed by more and more. Getting it right is not an issue. It is difficult to make a mistake with the sophisticated technology we now have. Making a personal and creative image is a far greater challenge.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Mistake, Technology

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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