Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of… — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
It wasn't enough to be positive, focused and fearless, I had to take action! Musicians say that the hardest part of practicing… — Joey Reiman Copy Share Image
In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music,… — Angelique Kidjo 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
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He… — Anonymous 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
[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
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
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
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
“The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and… — Leonard Wibberley Copy Share Image
Being a thoughtful vegan makes our time on this Earth more peaceful and joyous, because you get to have a hand in… — Russell Simmons 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
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
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
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