Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument;… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
My father set a strict regimen for me. He insisted that I learn to play many musical instruments before I choose one. — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“The second ceremony, are the musical instruments, which began to be used in the service of the church, in the time of… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in,… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or… — John Irving Copy Share Image
All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“They [the Puritans] disallowed of the cathedral mode of worship; of singing their prayers, and of the antiphone or chanting of the… — Daniel Neal Copy Share Image
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing -… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them… — Lita Ford Copy Share Image
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character.… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, grass, and wood-wind, on which St. John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not,… — George Brecht Copy Share Image
My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to… — Vienna Teng Copy Share Image
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“He had approached the villa on that night of the storm not out of curiosity about the music but because of a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“James would only look for music composed and performed by humans. Nowadays people didn’t feel the need to learn to play musical… — A.V. Osten Copy Share Image
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
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