Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.
The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.
I wanted to take the power of thought and the word, along with the power of speaking and heart, and see if we could wire what was coming out of us as humans with electric instruments.
In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.
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.
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn’t participate. They’re participating now in the world with us. They’re trading monetary instruments. We’re buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.
You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we’re human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.
As soon as you pick up a guitar, you’re up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. Essentially, you’re already in a soundscape that’s very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments.
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
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.
Piano is one of those instruments you don’t have to be good at to sound good – you just have to know where to put three little fingers, which is really pretty easy to figure out.
They were looking for actors – real actors – who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time.
In my own work, I don’t have favorite characters, but I have characters that I relate to the most. And I relate the most to Simon from ‘The Mortal Instruments,’ and also Tessa from ‘The Infernal Devices.’ They’re more sort of bookish and shy characters.
I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.
I remember my uncle, who was a jazz pianist, when we did Deep Purple ‘In Rock,’ he ran from the room screaming, holding his ears: ‘I can’t hear anything. I can’t hear any instruments.’ And I was rubbing my hands going, ‘Great.’
I’m finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.
Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.
Rhythm was a very strong element in KVM’s music. He used to be called Udukkadi Mannan, because of his wide use of percussion instruments, which included ghata sanjari.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
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.
If something is done really well then the question of live vs. DJ vs. instruments vs. drum machines doesn’t matter – it’s all just about taste, really.
And then the last album, ‘Get It’, was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.
It’s like an electroacoustic, surround-sound cello gamba. It embodies everything that fascinates me the most – acoustics, playing instruments, digital processing, movement of sound. Somehow, everything is combined in Ómar.
If you play the guitar, you’ve got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you’re limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.
If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it… I could only do little riffs and whatever.
But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
Every movie that I’m in is very different in terms of aesthetic and costume. I mean, from ‘Mirror, Mirror’ to ‘Mortal Instruments,’ I went from dressy dresses to leather and heels and tight, sexy, chic outfits.
My shows have never been related to my albums at all because my albums have all kinds of crazy instruments and stuff that could never be performed live. I’m used to people expecting this 12-piece band to show up with three drum sets and an accordion.
The thing about telescopes is that the mirror is the main component. Once that’s built, you don’t need to build new ones; you just need to swap out the instruments. There’s nothing wrong with Hubble’s mirror.
At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument proficiently?
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I’ve got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I’m a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.
My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.
‘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.
Beck is obviously a consummate musician. He plays instruments, many instruments. He can make his own record without having a fleet of computer operators onboard.
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
With the second record there’s a need to show that we weren’t chancers, that we could play our instruments.
My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I’d play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
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.
Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.
I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
I’m a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It’s manlier. You’re touching things to make sounds appear.
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums… I’m working on mastering the accordion.
I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians.
