Instruments Quotes - Page 39

• There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice.

  Paulina Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Guitar

  "Paulina Rubio...beauty without borders". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Two, Together

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• No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

  Michael Jackson

  Moving, Play, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jul 25, 2013

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• The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

  Ben Vereen

  Creative, Trying, Stage

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• Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

  Ruby Dee

  Paradise, Desperate, Love Each Other

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• He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix.

  B. B. King

  Music, Play, Names

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• I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

  Kerry Washington

  Thinking, Actors, Pianist

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

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• Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

  Ajay Naidu

  Actors, Landscape, Able

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• Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Children, Play, Chance

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• I tried to stay away from the Euro beats, and not go totally pop. Instead, I wanted to take the Quincy Jones approach. The record pays homage to the Stevie Wonders, the Michael Jacksons, the Sam Cookes. I wanted to put that classic essence of R&B and soul with the new age of music now. There’s a lot of live instruments, and a lot less Auto-Tune. I really wanted to demonstrate my vocal ability, creating the vibe of me singing along with a band.

  Chris Brown

  Essence, Auto Tune, Creating

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• Being a thoughtful vegan makes our time on this Earth more peaceful and joyous, because you get to have a hand in promoting and increasing the happiness, good health and well-being of others -- both animal and human -- rather than being an instrument of their suffering and death.

  Russell Simmons

  Animal, Thoughtful, Hands

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• The banjo am the instrument for me.

  Grandpa Jones

  Banjos

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• Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Character, Self Worth, Order

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• Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

  Eicca Toppinen

  Girl, Men, Guitar

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• Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat way to get that info burned into your brain without having to carry a guitar with you everywhere you go. Pretty cool!

  Bryan Beller

  Keys, Guitar, Brain

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• Watch carefully the children around you. In precious moments you will catch a glimpse of your Savior’s face. Listen intently and you will hear his voice. Walk gently among them; his footprints are all around you. Embrace them, for you are embracing him. Respect them, because they are sometimes God’s agents – exactly the kind of instruments he needs. At such times, only a child will do.

  Wess Stafford

  Children, Voice, Agents

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.228, WaterBrook

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• Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Love Is, Social, Insidious

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1986). “The Marriage of Maria Braun”, p.202, Rutgers University Press

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• Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

  Dave Grohl

  Play, People, Singing

  "Is Rock Music Dead? Not If Dave Grohl Has Anything To Say About It" by Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2012.

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• The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Rocks, Play, Band

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• Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.

  Harry Lloyd

  Book, Mean, Mind

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• We will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war - to the destruction and to the defeat of the global terror network.

  George W. Bush

  War, Mean, Law

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Shoes, People, Cameras

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Facts, Common

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Book, Mean, Expression

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• Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Grief, Believe

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