Musical Instruments Quotes - Page 2

• There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

  Brian Eno

  Long, Musical, Way

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

  Tom T. Hall

  Perfect, Musical, Instruments

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• If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

  Helen Keller

  Perfect, Greek, Musical

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.174, 谷月社

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• I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

  Don Cornelius

  School, Musical, Trying

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• PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Music, Body, Action

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.170, 谷月社

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• And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

  Lynn Johnston

  Father, Character, Play

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

  Shusha Guppy

  Beautiful, Voice, Musical

  Shusha Guppy (2004). “The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.148, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Musical

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

  Norman Doidge

  Reading, Health, Games

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• People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Inspirational, Music, People

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• Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

  Brigham Young

  Music, Sweet, Voice

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• Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Musical, Lilies, Mouths

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• Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

  Nikola Tesla

  Song, Simple, Land

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent, and within 30 seconds you could tell whether they were good or not, but with acting you have to give them the right part.

  Ed Sheeran

  Giving, Musical, Acting

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Sacrifice, Animal, Soul

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• In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can look principally in two places. One is weapons and the other is musical instruments. My hypothesis is that instruments are usually ahead of weapons. In fact, I think you can find many examples of instruments being predecessors of weapons and very few in the reverse.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Dad, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.107, Penguin

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• I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

  Elizabeth Swados

  Music, People, Looks

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• The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Musical, Instruments

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• Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Musical, Different

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Feb 12, 2012

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• To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

  Conrad Hall

  Color, Musical, Cameras

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• Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.

  Andrew Weil

  Basketball, Mean, Golf

  Andrew Weil (2011). “Spontaneous Happiness: Step-by-step to peak emotional wellbeing”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.

  Bob Dylan

  Musical, World, Welcome

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

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• If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

  Brian Eno

  Doors, Musical, Different

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