Instruments Quotes - Page 3

• The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Wine, Voice, Giving

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• The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

  Anish Kapoor

  Eye, Ears

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• I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

  Dick Dale

  Play, Horny, Keyboards

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• I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

  Steve Swallow

  Voice, Style, Looks

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• Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

  Steve Swallow

  Running, Play, Bass

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• I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

  Robin Trower

  Guitar, Want, Irreplaceable

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• If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

  Stan Getz

  Play, Voice, Saxophone

  "Readers recommend: best saxophone songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Summer, Sleep, Car

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.105, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Men, Competition, Faces

  Interview with Steve LeVeille, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

  Midge Ure

  Guitar, Firsts, My Favorite

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• I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

  Ornette Coleman

  Mean, Today, Decided

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• So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

  Jackson Browne

  Couple, Party, Years

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• People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

  Sonny Bono

  Song, Writing, Play

  "Sonny Bono Killed In Skiing Accident", www.cnn.com. January 6, 1998.

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• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

  World, United Nations, Stills

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• Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

  Ernest Mandel

  Party, Revolution

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• It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Essentials, Transformation, Social

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• Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Men, Proud, Action

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• Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  Ted Lange

  Artist, Thinking, Storytelling

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• In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

  Ravi Shankar

  Respect, Musical, Culture

  "Ravi Shankar Dead: Indian Sitar Virtuoso Dies At 92". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

  Gertrude Stein

  Air, Two, Support

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1958). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: A novel of thank you”

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• My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

  Ethel Waters

  My Family, Whole Family, Accompany

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• Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

  Benny Goodman

  Winning, Musician, Want

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• I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

  Peabo Bryson

  Mean, Thinking, Ties

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• I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

  Evan Parker

  Thinking, Voice, Doe

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• Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

  Richard Thompson

  Cheating, Littles, Acoustics

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