The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have… — Mirah Copy Share Image
Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes.… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their… — Pamela McCorduck Copy Share Image
You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets. — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. — Yanni Copy Share Image
Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of… — Peter London Copy Share Image
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and… — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Copy Share Image
