Instruments Quotes - Page 3

• The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.

  Richard Strauss

  Beautiful, Play, Voice

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• I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

  Dick Dale

  Play, Horny, Keyboards

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• I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

  Ornette Coleman

  Mean, Today, Decided

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• Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

  Ernest Mandel

  Party, Revolution

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• The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Wine, Voice, Giving

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• I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

  Steve Swallow

  Voice, Style, Looks

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• If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

  Stan Getz

  Play, Voice, Saxophone

  "Readers recommend: best saxophone songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

  Alexis Carrel

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Science

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• Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

  Steve Swallow

  Running, Play, Bass

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• Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Men, Competition, Faces

  Interview with Steve LeVeille, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

  Robin Trower

  Guitar, Want, Irreplaceable

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• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

  World, United Nations, Stills

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• So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

  Jackson Browne

  Couple, Party, Years

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• The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

  Herb Alpert

  Singing, Lyrical, Trumpets

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• Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Play, Singing, Important

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• I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

  Evan Parker

  Thinking, Voice, Doe

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• My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

  Ethel Waters

  My Family, Whole Family, Accompany

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• I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

  Adrian Belew

  Play, Band, Might

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• I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

  Benny Goodman

  Winning, Musician, Want

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• In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

  Ravi Shankar

  Respect, Musical, Culture

  "Ravi Shankar Dead: Indian Sitar Virtuoso Dies At 92". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

  Edgard Varese

  Writing, Men, Adequate

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• It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Essentials, Transformation, Social

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• Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

  Gertrude Stein

  Air, Two, Support

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1958). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: A novel of thank you”

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• Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Men, Proud, Action

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