I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.
Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.
I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.
You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.
Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.
I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.
There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
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.
I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
