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
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment,… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I think actually under scrutiny, Hillary's [Clinton] promotion of equal wages at poverty level and of healthcare for children but not for… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music… — Zeena Parkins Copy Share Image
I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan 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
...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
When you are present, your mind is silent. Free of opinions, concepts and beliefs and free of projections from the past and… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and… — Jane Seymour 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 mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
I think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and… — Danger Mouse Copy Share Image
I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s… — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image