Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not,… — George Brecht Copy Share Image
I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer… An instrument strung, but preferring… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is… — Carl Flesch Copy Share Image
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it -… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Work is a means; it is not an end. And for any tasks that can be performed or eliminated by a capital… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police. — Carl Joachim Friedrich Copy Share Image
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs. — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do,… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
