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• Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

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• You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

  Billy Higgins

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• The piano is kind of my second instrument.

  Bill Bruford

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  Tags in Instrument, Kind

• I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

  Ben Nicholson

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  Tags in Instrument, Agent

• In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. I didn’t want the set to be boring. So I’d moved some older songs onto the autoharp, and they worked really well.

  P. J. Harvey

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• After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

  Tom T. Hall

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  Tags in Music, Instrument

• The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

  George Santayana

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  Tags in Instrument, Body

• I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

  Paul McCartney

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  Tags in Without, Singer, Instrument

• When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it’s all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

  Spike Lee

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Music, Instrument, Play, School, Cutting

• With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I’ve worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

  F. Murray Abraham

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  Tags in Instrument, Person, Picture

• If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it’s like the human voice.

  Stan Getz

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  Tags in Play, Instrument

• You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That’s, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you’re chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.

  Slash

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• 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.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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  Tags in Instrument, Feel, Judge

• I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don’t think it’s an instrument to create a heightened reality.

  Gary Ross

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  Tags in Instrument, Create, Reality
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  Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  Samuel Butler

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Learning, Instrument

• The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

  William Christopher Handy

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

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• I’m the only instrument that’s got the words, so I’ve got to be able to get that across.

  Rosemary Clooney

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• The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don’t typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it’s using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.

  Serj Tankian

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  Tags in Instrument, Electronics

• But I’ve come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can’t play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play – and I need to embrace that in a big way.

  Charlie Hunter

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Play, Instrument

• I didn’t want to get attached to one guitar; I didn’t want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

  Robin Trower

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  Tags in Guitar, Instrument, Attached