They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work… — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and… — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Copy Share Image
The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities… — Junichiro Koizumi Copy Share Image
The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I practice yoga and breathing daily along with all the exercises on the instrument. I'm getting more and more monastic about it,… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
To put your full belief in your Guru, because it's for your own good, because you've decided that... It's just having a… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I definitely enjoy working within different contexts, with different collaborators, and in different locations. I need to keep feeding myself as an… — Mirah Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended.… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do… — Romero Britto Copy Share Image
Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat… — Bryan Beller Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin -… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
If you work with so many classical instruments... I mean, it still has this power, and it's still connected to the idea… — Pantha du Prince Copy Share Image
Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young'… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image