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The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.
I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.
I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.
Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.
How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
I purposely try to make my music cinematic. I try to inspire visuals even though I'm only an instrument of sound.
Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
People shouldn't knock the synthesizer. It's an aid, and it depends on how you use it, just like any other instrument.
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
To me, I don't see any difference between a synthesizer and an acoustic instrument. It's what's done on it that counts.
I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.
Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
A fantasy of mine is being pulled up onstage by one of my favorite bands and singing or playing an instrument with them.
An important instrument of economic policy-making in a market economy is credible, consistent, and timely communication.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.
When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it was a toy.