Instruments Quotes - Page 4

• Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

  David Ives

  Writing, Play, Symphony

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• I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

  Edgard Varese

  Writing, Men, Adequate

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• I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

  Vince Neil

  Song, Real, Writing

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• Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

  David Del Tredici

  Writing, Symphony, Musical

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• I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

  Adrian Belew

  Play, Band, Might

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• What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

  John Cale

  Giving, Use, Texture

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• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

  Walter Kohn

  Summer, Military, School

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• Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

  Tony Visconti

  Musician, Records, Today

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

  Kristin Hersh

  Needs, Taste, Good Taste

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• Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Progressive Society, Imperfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

  Billy Sheehan

  Hypnosis, Different, Looks

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• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Stupid, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  "D'Alembert's Dream". Book by Denis Diderot, 1830.

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• War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Loss

  Letter to John Sinclair, 1798.

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• Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

  Horatio Nelson

  Hands, Haste, Legs

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.422, Cambridge University Press

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• The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stress, Fiber, Conflict

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• Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

  Robert Collier

  Death, New Beginnings, Simple

  Robert Collier (1948). “The Secret of the Ages”

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• My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Hands, Ripe Fruit, Obedient

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.387, Univ of California Press

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• I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

  Jay London

  Boyfriend, Father, Tears

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• There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

  Aimee Mann

  Music, Divorce, Guy

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• I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

  Satyajit Ray

  Gdp, Western, Indian

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

  Michael Stipe

  Stars, Guitar, Sick

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• You've got to learn your instrument.

  Charlie Parker

  Jazz

  "Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business". Book by Jason Pugatch, p. 73, 2006.

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