Instruments Quotes - Page 19

• I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Car, People

  Interview with Anne Pasternak, creativetime.org.

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• My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

  Nicolas Cage

  Mother, Dancer, Acting

  "Nicolas Cage Interview BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.

  Nicolas Cage

  Feelings, Needs, Actors

  "Nicolas Cage: 'People think I'm not in on the joke'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2013.

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• I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.

  Tony Campolo

  Party, Blessing, Thinking

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• I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

  Nick Cannon

  Play, Hip Hop, Musician

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• I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose and I generally say I don’t play one so I don’t have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.

  Steve Carell

  Sexy, Play, Tubas

  "Q&A: ‘Schmucks’ Steve Carell and Paul Rudd". RELEVANT Magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. July 30, 2010.

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• Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

  Nick Cave

  Sound, Ordinary, Doe

  "Nick Cave talks about the new Grinderman CD, Katy Perry's 'chubby' fingers, and why EW needs to stop wasting his time with all these stupid questions". Interview with Clark Collis, ew.com. September 14, 2010.

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• My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

  Eric Clapton

  Echoes, Guitar, Voice

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

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• I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

  Tre Cool

  Musical, Trouble, Drummer

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• I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

  Chris Cornell

  Real, People, Musician

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• The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Desire, Body

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.440, GENERAL PRESS

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• Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Mean, Giving, Actors

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• Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

  Terry Eagleton

  Betrayal, Educational, Sick

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Beautiful, Art, Thinking

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

  Michael Ende

  Lying, Deceit, Manipulation

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• Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

  Feist

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Feist: 'I was basically raised by the Muppets'". Interview with Gareth Grundy, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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• I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Play, Want, Fiasco

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• Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.

  Thomas Frank

  Kids, Judging, Cash

  "Lock ‘em Up — Jailing Kids is a Proud American Tradition" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.

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• I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

  John Frusciante

  Musical, Style, Way

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• I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

  John Frusciante

  People, Use, World

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

  John Frusciante

  Thinking, Rocks, Guitar

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• I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

  Kenny G

  Song, Offended You, Play

  "Kenny G is 55: A “Chirpy” Interview From 2002". Interview with Ted Panken, tedpanken.wordpress.com. 2002.

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• The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

  Lady Gaga

  Play, Voice, Stories

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• Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Challenges, Way, Lyrical

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• My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Powerful, Real, Blood

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