Instruments Quotes - Page 20

• I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Kids, Spinning Around, Littles

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• The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Piano, Goes On, Theory

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• I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

  Hunter Hayes

  Player, Guitar, Theory

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• My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

  Hunter Hayes

  Growing Up, Grandmother, Louisiana

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• Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.

  Hunter Hayes

  Growing Up, Grandmother, Louisiana

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• I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

  Hunter Hayes

  Writing, Gears, Stuff

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• Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

  Levon Helm

  Kind, Turns, I Can

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• Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.

  James Hetfield

  Thinking, Guitar, Looks

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• Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Heart, Mirrors, Sight

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• I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

  Mick Jagger

  Children, Believe, Play

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• When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

  Elton John

  Rocks, Play, Two

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. 12 November, 2006.

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• Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

  Andrew Johnson

  Government, Giving, Political

  Andrew Johnson, Paul H. Bergeron (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-August 1867”, p.86, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, Powerful, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on

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• I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mean, Men, People

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• Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Art, Emotional, Piano

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• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  Talib Kweli

  Writing, Play, Collaboration

  "Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 17, 2013.

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• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  Jacques Lacan

  Running, Aggravation, Risk

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• Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

  Hugh Laurie

  Piano, Musical, Taught

  "Hugh Laurie Puts Blues In The House". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 18, 2013.

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• When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

  Spike Lee

  Art, School, Cutting

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

  Primo Levi

  Memories, Lying, Years

  "Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory". Book by Christopher Bigsby, 2006.

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• What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Doe, World

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• I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Talking, Years, People

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• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Memories, Imagining Yourself, Brain

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• The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.

  Wynton Marsalis

  School, Kids, Play

  "Branford Marsalis On Sensitive Musicians And The First Family Of Jazz". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 11, 2012.

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• I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

  Steve Martin

  Children, Wall, Mortgage

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