I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Lots of kids when they get their first instrument hammer away at it but they don't realise there are so many levels… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to… — Vienna Teng Copy Share Image
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has… — Moby Copy Share Image
Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies,… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have always personally preferred to think of what is more difficult for my instrument, and not what is the most natural… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
We have to make sure what we're doing is true - true as in life and not as in opera. The only… — Charles Nelson Reilly Copy Share Image
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
There are a lot of guys out there with skills who have not contributed to the evolution of the instrument. It's about… — Vinnie Colaiuta Copy Share Image
I try not to talk during the day when I have a show that night. My voice is my instrument, just like… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
I come from an old school of thought where there are musicians on stage, in the house, sitting and jamming to create… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played.… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
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