Instruments Quotes - Page 10

• And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo style becomes the identity of the banjo, and everything from before is wiped off of people's consciousness by the power of that explosion.

  Bela Fleck

  People, Southern, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.

  Jill Sobule

  Guitar, Parent, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

  Jill Sobule

  Teacher, Years, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Kids, Play, Want

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Fun, Thinking, Play

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

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• Shannon and all of us started the band so it just felt really natural, and then she quit, and then she came back, and then she quit again. I love working with her and would do it again, but that's just not in the cards. And Josh is a great person to play with - he can play any instrument. He's really inspiring and positive. It was great. It was meant to be temporary.

  Theresa Wayman

  Play, Cards, Band

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• The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation.

  Rafael Correa

  Latin, America, Accumulation

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.

  Christian Fennesz

  School, College, Thinking

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in the late twentieth century, a period of a totalitarianism linked with the market. There is really no other way you can do politics and create freedom for people without the kinds of instruments he revived. Civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy.

  Vandana Shiva

  Believe, People, Political

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• With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.

  Helen Mirren

  Play, Voice, Actors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Thinking, Circles, Today

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Bands who had different time signatures etc and for whatever reason, we morphed into Corrosion of Conformity. It's been about thirty years now.

  Reed Mullin

  Years, Play, Purple

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Jumping back into it was easy as apple pie, it was natural. Honestly, I'm not trying to be nostalgic and talk about the old days but I really believe wholeheartedly that the three of us, Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself really learned how to play our instruments together and now that we are playing together again it can't be anything but natural.

  Reed Mullin

  Believe, Jumping, Play

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.

  Glenn Branca

  Real, Creating, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.

  Glenn Branca

  Thinking, Sound, Tools

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way.

  Ricky Schroder

  Play, Actors, Way

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

  Iggy Pop

  Style, Singers, Records

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• We're doing all the shows as an eight-piece band. There's so many different kinds of palettes for each film that we've had to find a balance of musicians who can shift from one instrument to another to make all those sounds for us come to life.

  Stuart A. Staples

  Eight, Balance, Musician

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

  Nikki Jean

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

  Richard Patrick

  Song, Writing, Perfect

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

  Edward Said

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Don't be lazy. Learn your instrument and the kids should be learning that stuff. We have to get back to the musicianship of the music. It's called music, so at some point somebody has to learn how to play an instrument.

  Warryn Campbell

  Kids, Play, Lazy

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful quality that came through that made you - if you're somebody like me who was, I guess, supposed to play the banjo, it made you stop in your tracks, and you couldn't do anything until you got done hearing him play, and then immediately you'd have to go try and find a banjo.

  Earl Scruggs

  Play, Track, Trying

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• I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

  John Debney

  Needs, Firm, Believer

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• If a band isn't coming up with two to four of those when they pick up their instruments, then they have problems - even if none of them turn into a song. If that's not happening in a band, it's time for therapy or breaking up.

  Travis Morrison

  Song, Two, Band

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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