Common Quote by Theodore Bikel Download Open image “I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.” — Theodore Bikel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Weapons
It's nice knowing we're putting the banjo, the fiddle, the steel, and the mandolin back out front. — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
“ 'A guitar would work.' But then again so would a flute. A horn. A banjo. A tambourine. A trombone. The drums. When you're… — Nan Marino Copy Share Image
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and shoulders. And… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments. — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image