Instruments Quotes - Page 7

• Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Stupid, Jazz

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• Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

  Neville Marriner

  Symphony, Late

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• The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

  Gerry Mulligan

  Orchestra, Saxophone, Solo

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• People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

  Gerry Mulligan

  People, Innovation, Use

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• I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

  Sean Lennon

  Guitar, Two, Piano

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

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• You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

  Mel Tillis

  Sister, Mother, Brother

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• Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Technology, Rights, Oppression

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• There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

  Cass Sunstein

  Pride, Thinking, Uprising

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• I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.

  William Lilly

  Stars, Believe, Divine

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• I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

  Leo Kottke

  Guitar, Piano, Notes

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• When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

  Max Lerner

  Believe, Evil, Literature

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• The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

  Peter De Vries

  Tubas

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• The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

  David Tudor

  Unique, Should Have, Ideas

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• Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Use, Creator, Vegetation

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• I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

  Mick Taylor

  Mother, Song, Piano

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• This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Men, Self, Play

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• There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Understanding, Able, Use

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• There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

  Lara St. John

  Play, Voice, Trying

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• Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

  Anna Lindh

  Challenges, Borders, World

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• I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

  Fred Rogers

  Watches, Television, Way

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• I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

  Mike Figgis

  Musical, Cameras, Ifs

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• It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Sound, Acoustics, Corny

  FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 29, 2013

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• The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

  Plato

  Flutes, Moral, Exciting

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• Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Idols, Play

  "Dave Grohl Just Continues To Dominate" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

  Don Henley

  Thinking, Ukulele, Play

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

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