Rock is about finding who you are. You don’t necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
What I’ve learned how to do as I’ve gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I’ve ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.
Guitar was just a hobby, but it seemed to me that the instrument had possibilities, not least of which was that there was no one else playing it. I could be, as it were, the best boy in an all-girls school.
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
Touring is hard. It’s really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so good, it’s like boot camp out there; I can’t do anything – just sleep, sing and be very healthy.
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He’s aware of where he is and what he’s doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
I love Darius Rucker. He’s a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.
Voice is my instrument.
I don’t think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don’t like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world’s problems.
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.
The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.
There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
Finding a ‘sacrificial lamb’ on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation’s economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.
When I was born, my dad was playing music, so I’m pretty sure he was singing to me in the womb. I was born into music, in a way, because he was playing acoustic guitar. I was around an instrument growing up.
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.
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 never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
The Ramaswami case and subsequent attempts to impeach judges have demonstrated the total impracticality of that instrument to discipline judges.
I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
When you have a sense of yourself in space, in your movement, in your muscles, you can express yourself through your body, your instrument. You learn so much about who you are and what your truth is.
Imagination is an instrument of survival.
My voice isn’t an instrument I can just hang up on a hook.
Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.
A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it’s like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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.
If you’re a musician, there’s no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you’re drawn to it, develop the talent for it.
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
I’ve always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
My talent is definitely a gift. I don’t understand where it comes from. I don’t play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction.
The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others – it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
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.
A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn’t stop at one instrument.
Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
With ‘Game of Thrones,’ the most dominant instrument would definitely be the cello. That’s something I just felt really captured the mood of the show very well.
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.
I’m kind of a terrible musician. I’m a very functional musician. I play just about every instrument in a band setting, functionally. But I should not be taking solos.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
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.
In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.
I’ve been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he’s playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
With Klaxons I had an instrument, so I had a job to play keys. Everyone’s roles get defined early in bands, so you’re ‘that guy who does this one thing’ and it felt too restrictive doing that.
It’s hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
I think it’s important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.
You are an instrument if you understand your voice and how to use it – this sound, that sound and certain ranges and different pitch. Within that I try to find a rhythm and play the voice as if it was a horn.
The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You’ll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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.
