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• It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

  Jill Scott

  Song, Self, Rhyme

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• The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Imagination, Moral, Positive Atheism

  1821 A Defence of Poetry.

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• You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

  Nate Silver

  Choices, Example, Arbitrary

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• Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

  Gene Simmons

  Reality, Rocks, Play

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• My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Voice, Good Enough

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• You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.

  Slash

  Good Night, Thinking, Emotional

  "TalkAsia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. February 16, 2011.

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• Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Ambition, Men

  Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.550

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• I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.

  Patti Smith

  Stars, Frustration, Rocks

  "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.

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• Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Mean, Gun, People

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• When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.

  Charles Stanley

  Son, Blow, Destiny

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• Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

  Taylor Swift

  Play, People, Behinds

  "Taylor Swift Shares Her Rock-star Life In 'Band Hero'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. August 04, 2009.

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• The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.

  Serj Tankian

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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

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• The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Use, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.16, New World Library

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• Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Reality, Men, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.794, e-artnow

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• The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Play, Acoustics

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

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• The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

  Steve Vai

  Tunes, Miserable, I Can

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

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• Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.

  Steve Vai

  Play, Years, People

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

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• Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.

  Steve Vai

  Art, Player, Guitar

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

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• The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Meaningful, India And Pakistan, Use

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• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  Edgard Varese

  Important, Use, Want

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• This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

  Voltaire

  Love Is, Self, Giving

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.73

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• The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

  Jacki Weaver

  Eye, Soul, Important

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

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• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  Florence Welch

  Dog, Wall, Play

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• We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.

  Lawrence Welk

  Father, Musical, Pumps

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

  Amy Winehouse

  Play, Singers, Ifs

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