Instruments Quotes - Page 18

• As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

  Annie Besant

  Memories, Brain, Perception

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.217, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I feel like I'm a quick learner and I'm also very quick to forget. That's why I can't play an instrument because I can't bloody remember it.

  Joss Stone

  Play, Remember, Forget

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can look principally in two places. One is weapons and the other is musical instruments. My hypothesis is that instruments are usually ahead of weapons. In fact, I think you can find many examples of instruments being predecessors of weapons and very few in the reverse.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say "Make music, not war," in the sense that the people who create musical instruments are the same people who make up new weapons.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Hippie, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how and why we get there is a mystery. Absent significant regulatory or tax changes, and a sharp transition could be disruptive.

  Alan M. Taylor

  Transition, Debt, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The light went on when I heard Phil [woods] play, and I went like, "That is why I'm playing the instrument." So I got very inspired, I started going to clubs through a friend's mom in the city, again, another person who just completely opened all these doors for me and it was amazing how kind she was.

  Jon Gordon

  Mom, Light, Doors

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• A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

  Jon Gordon

  Play, Guy, Genius

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• I didn't have time to deal with practicing in a way that I would have liked to. I wish I could have just said, "I've got four to five hours every day that I'm going to go deal with music." I just didn't' have that. I missed a lot of lessons, but I think that maybe was frustrating to me in a big picture sense of, I need the time and energy to put into my instrument.

  Jon Gordon

  Thinking, Wish, Energy

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• In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Real, Holiday, Simple

  Interview with Léa Seydoux, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 23, 2014.

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• There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music. I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.

  Agnes Obel

  Teenager, Thinking, Class

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.

  E-40

  Play, Piano, Ifs

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• The world is changing considerably and the United Nations must change too. It must become an instrument which responds to the needs of the international community of the year 2000, which will be quite different from that of 1945.

  Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

  Years, Community, Different

  Source: simerg.com

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• Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesian­ - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist." It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist."

  Vik Muniz

  Eye, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely environmentalists being paid - but a lot of people are acting for something other than financial compensation. So if the tar sands pipeline doesn't get made, it's because a huge amount of people are doing something that doesn't involve remuneration, money, etc., because we're not actually the self-interested financial instruments that economists like to imagine we are.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Oil, Self, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

  Lord Acton

  Past, Rivers, Gold

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.1, VM eBooks

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• Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

  Ansel Adams

  Reality, Spirit, Photographer

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

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• A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

  Marian Anderson

  Grace, Singers, Moments

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• The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

  Hannah Arendt

  Dubious, Matter, Violence

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Guitar, Acoustics, Finesse

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• These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

  William Henry Ashley

  War, Gun, Arrows

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• My body is an instrument for me to use.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Use, Body

  "The kiss of death" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.

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• Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

  Bjork

  House, Musical, Musician

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

  Tony Blair

  Media, Creative, Healthy

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• The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

  Robert Bolt

  Men, Light, Law

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.97, A&C Black

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