Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your… — James Blake Copy Share Image
Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how play best, but with a listener who understands nothing or does not wish… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Establishing a style is important, it really is, but a lot of singers get so involved with their instrument, and more so… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference. — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the… — Pedro Reyes Copy Share Image
I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation. — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities. — Stjepan Hauser Copy Share Image
Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world. — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image