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If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.
Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.
I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.
You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.
When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.
With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it sing.
I think John Williams, him and his team, have been incredible orchestrators. By that, I mean how he chooses which instrument plays which note.
Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.
I think Australia is an extremely relevant partner and a key instrument for the stability, the progress, and the support of the East Timorese.
My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside dialogue.
One of the problems trying to play an instrument outside in the cold is your fingers give up on you and you can't wear gloves, even fingerless.
I'm usually torn by, 'What's the role of government to cure injustice?' Families, churches, and schools can be more of an instrument of change.
I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
The Ramaswami case and subsequent attempts to impeach judges have demonstrated the total impracticality of that instrument to discipline judges.
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.
The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is just the instrument I happen to play.
Performing outside is always kind of strange. Usually, you can't hear something, whether it's your voice or instrument, but it's a fun challenge.
Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice.
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
I had an edge in 'Andhadhun' because, being a musician, I knew how to play a guitar, so it was not difficult for me to learn a musical instrument.
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
You know, the ukulele itself is not a very loud instrument, all right? And, you know, compared to like a trumpet, right? A trumpet is really loud.
I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.
At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument proficiently?
We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.
Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.
I'm the only person in my entire extended family that plays an instrument or sings, really. Which is kind of weird. I don't know where I got it from.
I've always seen our faith as an instrument to embrace our fundamental equality, before God and before our laws, and not as a license to discriminate.
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.