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• I’d actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

  Amanda Palmer

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  Tags in Social, Instrument

• I started writing when I was around 6. I say ‘writing,’ but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn’t really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

  Hunter Hayes

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  Tags in Demo, Instrument

• 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.

  Hunter Hayes

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• Yes, I always say that we’re a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.

  Emmylou Harris

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  Tags in Microphone, Instrument

• If you have a great-sounding guitar that’s a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that’s the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  Eddie Van Halen

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  Tags in Instrument, Starts

• 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.

  Eddie Van Halen

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• When you become an instrument in God’s hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person’s eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.

  Charles Stanley

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  Tags in Darkness, Destiny, Instrument

• I’m a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

  Chad Smith

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  Tags in Instrument, Lead

• When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice – my voice.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

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• 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

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  Tags in Music, Instrument, Play, School, Cutting

• I consider the piano my ‘main’ instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

  Ian MacKaye

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  Tags in Instrument, Playing, Remember

• 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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• 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.

  Oscar Peterson

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• When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano’s is the most ungainly rock’ n’ roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

  Elton John

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  Tags in Person, Fabulous, Rock And Roll, Instrument

• The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

  Cecilia Bartoli

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• 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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• My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

  Billy Ocean

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

  Billy Higgins

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• 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

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  Tags in Play, Instrument