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How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument. Peter Hitchens

Beautiful Musical Musical Instrument Voice Shall He Miss Like Instrument How Command His English Alan Played

Conducting is more difficult than playing a single instrument. You have to know the culture, to know the score, and to project what you want to hear. Some conductors are well prepared but cannot transmit their ideas to an orchestra, and others are good communicators but have nothing to transmit because they are not absorbed enough in the score. Pierre Boulez

Good You Culture Single Nothing Difficult Enough Others Project Some More Absorb Ideas Know Instrument Well Because Hear Score Conducting Conductors Than Orchestra Want Cannot Communicators Transmit Prepared Playing

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him. Polly Berrien Berends

Baby See Instrument Him Us Much Nourishment

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. Primo Levi

If corporations are to remain a legitimate instrument of collective action, they must concern themselves directly with the well-being of those party to, and affected by, their actions. Punit Renjen

Collective Party Action Corporations Those Must Directly Remain Instrument Concern Well-Being Affected Legitimate Themselves Actions

I want the Congress to become an instrument for dialogue among the Indian people - all of us, from all corners of our great country, all religions, all ethnicities, all ages, genders and people - and for our dialogue to always be led by love and affection. Rahul Gandhi

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument. Rakim

Music Writing Words Try Approach Like Instrument Make Track Hand Hand-In-Hand Up Different Rhymes Patterns Rhythms Using

We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up with was the cello. It has a big range. It can play really low. It can play high. And it has a dark sound, and 'Game Of Thrones' is obviously - it's a dark show, and the cello became the featured instrument. Ramin Djawadi

Game Dark Big Own Our Range High Featured Knew Instrument Obviously Became Sound Came Up Cello Wanted Low Then Really Game Of Thrones Show Play Actually Tone

I collect many ethnic instruments, and as a guitarist, I'm usually able to play any sort of instrument - as long as it has strings. That's why I like to experiment with different sounds. Ramin Djawadi

Guitarist Long Experiment Strings Collect Able Like Instrument Instruments Sort Sounds Any Different Ethnic Different Sounds Many Why Play

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. Ramin Djawadi

Game Definitely Mood Would Something Most Instrument Well Felt Dominant Very Cello Just Really Game Of Thrones Show Captured

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. Richard Thompson

Three-Quarters Songs Wrote Instrument Without Hands

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument. Rita Coolidge

Key Space Valuable Everything Peggy Peggy Lee Out About Voice Powerful Instrument Lee Front Subtlety Cluttered Use Her

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. Ritchie Blackmore

Miserable Melancholy Instrument Isolated Cello

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely. Robert Bolt

You Man Law Light Walk Citizen Long Kind See He Instrument Safely Any May Which Keeps

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. Robert Trujillo

You Bass Sing Instrument Make Sound Different Dynamic Really Tone

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable. Robin Trower

Guitar Attached Instrument Get Irreplaceable Want

Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening. Roger Rosenblatt

Great Example Understanding Our Writers Instead Merely For Example Instrument Unusual Because Surprise Anticipation Whereas Happening Use Why Consequence

Imagination is an instrument of survival. Rogier van der Heide

Survival Imagination Instrument

I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I was seeing the light at the end of the recovery tunnel and was going to live pain-free, I realized again that it was a fun little instrument to play. Ronnie Montrose

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music. Roscoe Mitchell

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across. Rosemary Clooney

Words Able Only Instrument Got Get Across

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. Ruth St. Denis

Life Space Dance Beauty Own Other Opens Instrument Message Real Up Than Dependence Anything Urge Bodies Apparatus Who Express

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