The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are… — Paul K. Chappell Copy Share Image
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
Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the… — Kamla Persad-Bissessar Copy Share Image
Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That's exactly the meaning of the word 'ecstasy':… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I… — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee… — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on… — Dan Hicks 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
There are only so many instruments you can layer on top of each other that aren't perfectly electronically programmed. "Long Vermont Roads"… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation;… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
As a drummer, you can't fake the instrument. A trumpet, you could be blowing air; a person who plays the trumpet could… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
Saying that you've got acoustic instruments and that's traditional and so people will think it's more intimate, that will always be the… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
My dad is an art director for BBC TV shows, and my mum does screen printing workshops. Both of my parents played… — King Krule Copy Share Image
What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
