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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Over and over in the history of astronomy, a new instrument finds things we never expected to see.
Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.
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.
Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.
It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.
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.
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.
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.
Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
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.
For Italy, sanctions are never an end; they are an instrument that must be overcome as soon as possible.
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
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.
I started taking vocal lessons, I always loved the challenge of playing my instrument and trying to sing.
It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
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.
To me, finding sounds, or even recording, is a compositional process. The studio is kind of an instrument.
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
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.
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.
How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
I purposely try to make my music cinematic. I try to inspire visuals even though I'm only an instrument of sound.
Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.