Instruments Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

  Peabo Bryson

  Mean, Thinking, Ties

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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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• 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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• Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

  Richard Thompson

  Cheating, Littles, Acoustics

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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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• What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

  John Cale

  Giving, Use, Texture

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• Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

  David Ives

  Writing, Play, Symphony

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• Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  Ted Lange

  Artist, Thinking, Storytelling

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

  Kristin Hersh

  Needs, Taste, Good Taste

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• I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

  Billy Sheehan

  Hypnosis, Different, Looks

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• Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Progressive Society, Imperfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

  Robert Collier

  Death, New Beginnings, Simple

  Robert Collier (1948). “The Secret of the Ages”

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• Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

  Michael Stipe

  Stars, Guitar, Sick

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• I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

  Satyajit Ray

  Gdp, Western, Indian

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Stupid, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• You've got to learn your instrument.

  Charlie Parker

  Jazz

  "Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business". Book by Jason Pugatch, p. 73, 2006.

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• There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

  Aimee Mann

  Music, Divorce, Guy

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• We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  "D'Alembert's Dream". Book by Denis Diderot, 1830.

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• My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Hands, Ripe Fruit, Obedient

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.387, Univ of California Press

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• Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

  Horatio Nelson

  Hands, Haste, Legs

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.422, Cambridge University Press

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• The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stress, Fiber, Conflict

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• War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Loss

  Letter to John Sinclair, 1798.

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• I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

  Jay London

  Boyfriend, Father, Tears

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