Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument.… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be… — Lester Bowie Copy Share Image
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I'd do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that's fun, it doesn't have the… — Bernie Leadon Copy Share Image
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Shannon and all of us started the band so it just felt really natural, and then she quit, and then she came… — Theresa Wayman Copy Share Image
In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless… — Andrew Hill Copy Share Image
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God,… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and… — Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier Copy Share Image
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It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process… — Louis Daguerre Copy Share Image
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me,… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
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