Instruments Quotes - Page 16

• The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.

  Zeena Parkins

  Piano, Body, Harps

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

  Frank Fairfield

  Years, Play, Knowing

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Voice, Sometimes

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.

  Rokia Traore

  Dream, Mind, Singing

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.

  Rokia Traore

  Guitar, Years, Missing

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.

  Lita Ford

  Play, People, Musical

  "The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on "Living Like a Runaway". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

  Max Tundra

  Gigs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

  Victoria Legrand

  Makeup, Piano, Said

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.

  Victoria Legrand

  Girl, Coffee, School

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

  Prefuse 73

  Mother, Play, Parks

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.

  Danielle Dutton

  Book, Wind, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I regret my lack of options. I regret being painted into a corner and having that be the only instrument to get me from point A to point B.

  T.I.

  Regret, I Regret, Corners

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace.

  Lizz Wright

  Emotional, Long, Coughing

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even if you play an open string, you feel it.

  Tod Machover

  Play, Body, Size

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

  Tod Machover

  Ideas, Feelings, Important

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

  Tod Machover

  Mean, Keys, Ivory

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.

  Rob Schwimmer

  Music, Play, Trying

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• What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved - this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Mind, Body

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so responsive, you're just slipping your hand back and forth.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Beautiful, Glasses, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.

  Vandana Shiva

  Order, Creating, Diversity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• You know, if you use instrument, why, you have to stay on perfect time - timing. And if you do a cappella - I'm so bad, just wonder, you know, maybe I'll sing one verse this way and one verse another. And if you're doing it a capella, you don't have to keep any time. You can just go out as far as you want to with it.

  Ralph Stanley

  Perfect, Use, Want

  "Remembering Bluegrass And Banjo Legend Ralph Stanley". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

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• Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.

  Martin Schulz

  Decision, Democracy, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I still go to that church now, and they don't believe in instruments in the church. But, my brothers and sisters in the church will listen to me. They will come out to a place to see me play. They will buy all of my records and everything, but they don't believe in bringing that instrument in the church. But, they'll come and watch me somewhere else. Why that is, I don't know.

  Ralph Stanley

  Brother, Believe, Somewhere Else

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

  Ralph Stanley

  Church, Harm

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage. It takes on this incredible feeling of levitating and the molecules spin differently in the moment.

  Matt Nathanson

  Spiritual, Healing, Player

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