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Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.
I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.
I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.
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.
Globalisation has changed the world, and football is the perfect instrument to set an example and to help adapt to this new world.
I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.
Seminars, TV shows, documentaries, always spreading Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I'm an instrument of this art more than a character myself.
People don't think of cello as a rock instrument, really, and we want people to know all the possibilities that the cello can offer.
I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
I'm a flutist so I know what they can deliver in terms of texture and sound and blurriness and softness. It's a very soft instrument.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.
Every teacher that I've ever had, that I still remember their name, made me laugh. I feel like comedy is the best instrument to teach.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument.
If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.
When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.
With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it sing.
Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.
I think John Williams, him and his team, have been incredible orchestrators. By that, I mean how he chooses which instrument plays which note.
I think Australia is an extremely relevant partner and a key instrument for the stability, the progress, and the support of the East Timorese.
I'm usually torn by, 'What's the role of government to cure injustice?' Families, churches, and schools can be more of an instrument of change.
One of the problems trying to play an instrument outside in the cold is your fingers give up on you and you can't wear gloves, even fingerless.
My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside dialogue.
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.