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I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.
In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.
My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
Ever since I was a little kid, my ears and my hands would talk to each other very well, so I could pick up instruments quite easily.
In my solo work on my own albums, I have used voice synthesizers and vocoders quite a lot in connection with orchestral instruments.
The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.
I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
Some people would say, 'Nah, he's just a YouTube kid.' But I sing, play instruments; I can mix, master, and engineer - all those stuff.
As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles as well.
I love Erykah Badu. Every time I listen to her music, I'm, like, laying out all the instruments in the song, like, how I would loop it.
'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is the same.
The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.
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.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
When you write on the road, you are restricted to the instruments around you, whereas in the studio, you can plug anything in and try it.
I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.
A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.
In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.
There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.
I regret my lack of options. I regret being painted into a corner and having that be the only instrument to get me from point A to point B.
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.
My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
I can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers' counting is different - they only go to eight beats, which doesn't relate to a bar.
There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.
You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.
Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.
One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.
'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.
I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
We have such an energetic live show. We have so much fun onstage. We swap instruments. We might possibly be the sweatiest band in the business.
I'm an electronic guy, I'm a freak for electronic music but real instruments, the dynamic range of it, and the emotions, there's no comparison.
People don't come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it.
When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.
I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.
We do not have to borrow in the external market, but we have used and are using this traditional instrument in international financial relations.
I don't think gay guys are in touch with how many fabulous divas we have that actually play their own instruments and write their own music, too.
I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.