Instruments Quotes - Page 21

• The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

  Steve Martin

  Past, Banjos, Capture

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• I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

  Paul McCartney

  Singers

  "Paul McCartney Blows 'Kisses' To His Father's Era". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 29, 2012.

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• I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.

  Moby

  Song, Thinking, Play

  "With Destroyed, Moby Makes Sense of Shattered Musical Landscape". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 17, 2011.

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• An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Actors, Sensitive, Supposed To Be

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

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• An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, What If, Actors

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• I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

  Alanis Morissette

  Athlete, Thinking, Views

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• I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.

  Jason Mraz

  Journey, Laughing, Singing

  "Talk Asia". www.cnn.com. November 16, 2012.

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• I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

  Brittany Murphy

  Play, Giving, Minutes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

  Mike Myers

  Country, Cities, Musician

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• You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'

  Mira Nair

  Believe, Character, Who I Am

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• I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

  Stevie Nicks

  Guitar, Able, Bigs

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• I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  "Gary Numan answers your questions" by Adam Boult, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2012.

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• A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

  Conor Oberst

  Bombs, Weapons, Imperfect

  "Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst responds to Arizona promoter’s boycott concerns" by Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. July 2, 2010.

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• The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

  Yoko Ono

  Song, Home, Play

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

  James Otis

  Hands, Dying, Slavery

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

  Mike Pence

  Air, Flow, Good Intentions

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

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• Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

  Joe Perry

  Song, Years, Band

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• Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Kind

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• The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

  Dan Quayle

  Political, Important, Agendas

  Appalachian Journal, Volume 16, 1988.

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• As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

  Nick Rahall

  Prayer, Powerful, People

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• You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

  John C. Reilly

  Believe, Character, Play

  "Comic-Con: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman and Rich Moore Talk WRECK-IT RALPH, Vintage Video Games and Getting the Rights to Game Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 13, 2012.

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• I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

  Buddy Rich

  Night, Thinking, Play

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• Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Understanding, Example, Use

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• Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Revenge, Mean

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• Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Play, Musician

  Robert Schumann (1986). “Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words”

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