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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.
I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.
I love music, but can't hold a note in a bucket. I can't sing, can't play an instrument.
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.
All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.
We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.
People love to hear a guy who is really good on his instrument. They love to watch him go.
Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.
Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!
A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
Every continent on Earth has a form of bullroarer - it's the oldest instrument known to man.
Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.
I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.
I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.