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I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.
Over and over in the history of astronomy, a new instrument finds things we never expected to see.
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.
I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
It's been really fun to see what happens to my body when I don't have an instrument attached to it.
Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.
Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.
It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.
Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.
Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices.
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
For Italy, sanctions are never an end; they are an instrument that must be overcome as soon as possible.
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
In reality, I never even got to have a Hank Williams instrument. I got a tie, a fishing lure and a check.
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
To me, finding sounds, or even recording, is a compositional process. The studio is kind of an instrument.
The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano.
It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.
I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.