Instruments Quotes - Page 14

• The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

  Dolly Parton

  Writing, Guitar, Play

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• I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is percussion and rhythm and loudness, then that is the way the dance numbers will be. But it is pretty hard on romance with seven guitars, three drums, and no melody instruments in the band.

  Gene Kelly

  Guitar, Numbers, Romance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.

  Abby Brammell

  Soul, Mind, Tunes

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.

  Van Morrison

  Artist, May, Want

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• The fight against terrorism is something very real and practical for us. This is a fight to preserve our territorial integrity, and in this sense we need to have the instruments and create an environment in Russia that would make it impossible for the international terrorist organisations to achieve the aims they have set for themselves here.

  Vladimir Putin

  Integrity, Real, Fighting

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• However, there is a fundamental difference between the issue related to Japan's history and our negotiations with China. What is it all about? The Japanese issue resulted from World War II and is stipulated in the international instruments on the outcomes of World War II, while our discussions on border issues with our Chinese counterparts have nothing to do with World War II or any other military conflicts. This is the first, or rather, I should say, the second point.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, War, Japan

  Source: thesaker.is

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• We do not have to borrow in the external market, but we have used and are using this traditional instrument in international financial relations.

  Vladimir Putin

  Financial, Used, Relation

  Source: thesaker.is

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• We have issued financial instruments in the past, and there is a strong demand for them, it is simply unnecessary now.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Past, Demand

  Source: thesaker.is

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• It's a funny thing, if I could choose anything to do, it wouldn't be to be in front of a camera because I've spent so much of my time, so much of my life trying to get really good at writing songs and playing instruments.

  Jarryd James

  Song, Writing, Funny Things

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• I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!

  Witold Lutosławski

  Running, Play, Ridiculous

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• I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

  Jasper Fforde

  Order, Dancing, Good Man

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

  Satish Kumar

  Mean, Corporations, Making Money

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.

  Dean Wareham

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.

  Annie E. Clark

  Writing, Records, Firsts

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• My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.

  Leigh Newman

  Dad, Taught, Basics

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

  Bryce Dessner

  Self, Play, Want

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• The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for conveying the experience of us each being alone, trapped in our skulls with only these bodies and this imperfect instrument of language to convey our state and to find meaning and connection.

  Michael Helm

  Ideas, Skulls, Connections

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Play, Know How, Knows

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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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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• 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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