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Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.
Bagpipes is a woodwind instrument, so you have to warm it up. But in a wrestling dressing room? You've got to be kidding me.
I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.
If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.
The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
I don't believe in getting a lot of new gear all the time, so I get very deeply into one instrument and use it for many years.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone is quite an accomplishment.
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other times.
I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'
I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.
My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.
Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.
Globalisation has changed the world, and football is the perfect instrument to set an example and to help adapt to this new world.
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm but also very cold.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Seminars, TV shows, documentaries, always spreading Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I'm an instrument of this art more than a character myself.
People don't think of cello as a rock instrument, really, and we want people to know all the possibilities that the cello can offer.
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.
I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
I'm a flutist so I know what they can deliver in terms of texture and sound and blurriness and softness. It's a very soft instrument.
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Every teacher that I've ever had, that I still remember their name, made me laugh. I feel like comedy is the best instrument to teach.
On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.
Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.