Instruments Quotes - Page 18

• No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Hands, Lord, Women Of God

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Sports, Effort, Compare

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• When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you have completely mastered the instrument, the music plays for you. But you still have to keep practicing. And it takes an awful lot of practice. Nonetheless, if you diligently practice, hours and hours and hours and hours, you probably won't get it. You'll probably just end up hurting your fingers.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Hurt, Practice, Play

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• I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is: They are bringing to me their performance skills and their unusual instruments, which I'm relishing. They're really beautiful. The other thing is improvisation - these players improvise and they do it very beautifully, as a matter of fact.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Beautiful, Player, Skills

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Keyboards, Mice, Performances

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence.

  Reggie Watts

  Creativity, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [John Boswell] introduction of the concept of "gay" (in the way he defines it) provides us both with a useful instrument of research and at the same time a better comprehension of how people actually conceive of themselves and their sexual behavior.

  Michel Foucault

  Gay, People, Way

  Source: www.questia.com

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• There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one would suppose, by the emergence of the remarkable instrument of language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Animal, Doubt, Might

  Source: libcom.org

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• Jesus was not just godly, godlike, God hungry, God focused, or God worshipping. He was God. Not merely a servant of God, instrument of God, or friend of God, but Jesus was God.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Godly, Servant Of God

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There's just something really, really timeless about live instruments. There's just something special about them that you can't really duplicate or grasp without including live instruments.

  Miguel

  Special, Timeless, Duplicate

  Source: us.napster.com

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• At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your parents signed for you and vouched for you. Then after you had it for a little while you could decide if you were interested in taking lessons or you could also get your own gear. Or you could turn that instrument in for another one and try something else. So that's how I got my hands on the guitar.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Book, School, Guitar

  Source: somedayprods.com

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• For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love watches, and I love how they're constructed.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Beautiful, Watches, Care

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

  Steve Young

  Real, Vision, Sound

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

  Steve Young

  Orchestra, Technique, Shows

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

  Lady Gaga

  Play, Voice, Stories

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• I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  "Gary Numan answers your questions" by Adam Boult, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2012.

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• A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

  Conor Oberst

  Bombs, Weapons, Imperfect

  "Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst responds to Arizona promoter’s boycott concerns" by Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. July 2, 2010.

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• The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

  Yoko Ono

  Song, Home, Play

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

  James Otis

  Hands, Dying, Slavery

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

  Dean Koontz

  Light, Giving, Darkness

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.680, Bantam

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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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• and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

  George Eliot

  Discovery, Agony, Soul

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.83, 谷月社

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• A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Believe, Men

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the replacement of the usual morning waking with something else, something quite impossible even to think about. We don't even have the instrument to do it, because our mind & our world are the same thing.

  Victor Pelevin

  Morning, Mean, Thinking

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