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I had this instrument that I built in high school. It was a huge, six-foot-long stringed instrument, and I started playing with that amplified and singing through power electronic stuff. I played those shows, and it would blow the lid off of everybody, and everybody would flip out.
Weyes Blood
School
Power
Singing
Everybody
Those
Out
High
Would
Lid
High School
Through
Had
Stuff
Instrument
Built
Off
Huge
Blow
Flip
Electronic
Shows
Played
Amplified
Started
Playing
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Willa Cather
Achievement
Creation
Magical
Could
Instrument
Were
Foretell
Process
Which
Measure
Element
Desire
The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
William Greider
International Relations
Relations
Marketplace
Instrument
Globalization
Unfettered
Dynamic
Regime
Organizing
International
I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. That's why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around.
Willie Nelson
Experience
Writing
Old
Long
Before
Young
Believe
Enough
Out
About
Poems
Could
Put
Ideas
Also
Instrument
Around
Pass
Were
Years
Five
Six
Eight
Really
Lived
Why
Reincarnation
Play
Things
Four
Here
Started
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.
Wynton Marsalis
Music
Song
Try
Older
Emotional
Take
Push
Had
Instrument
Learn
Learned
How
Sound
Gotten
Effect
The Hardest Thing
Information
Theme
Aside
Create
Use
Each
Ever
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Playing
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
Yanni
Love
Music
Voice
Write
Most
Instrument
Instrumental
Another
Human
While
Use
Human Voice
I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
Yanni
Man
Long
Would
Emotion
Combination
Instrument
Known
Any
Just
Use
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
Yelawolf
Life
Music
You
World
Hop
Only
Take
Instrument
Make
Hip
Hip-Hop
Any
Anybody
Where
Anything
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.
Yo-Yo Ma
You
Memory
Yourself
Others
Only
Neural
Also
Instrument
Practicing
Doing
Brain
Task
Same
Whether
Either
Forms
Your
Connections
Rehearsing
Actually
Muscle
Playing
Imagining
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
Yo-Yo Ma
Age
New
Instrument
Making
Coming
May
Golden
Golden Age
I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'
Yoko Ono
Myself
Travel
Will
Something
Voice
Instrument
Said
Always
Created
Use
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
Yoko Ono
Home
Only
Piano
Songs
Instrument
Make
Whenever
Them
Play
The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.
Jose Feliciano
Old
First
Instrument
Years
Accordion
Played
Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument, you know?
Rhiannon Giddens
You
Black
Made
First
Whatever
Hundred
Hundred Years
Would
Would-Be
Know
Instrument
Well
Instruments
Known
Around
Materials
Were
Been
Years
Existence
Handmade
Banjo
Plantation
Original
There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America.
Rhiannon Giddens
Music
Black
White
Hostility
Idea
Instrument
America
Banjo
Being
Notion
Inheritance
Old-Time
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
Taylor Swift
People
Pick
Instrument
Encourages
Up
Behind
Anything
Fully
Play
Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
P. J. O'Rourke
Life
Politics
People
Energy
Believe
Conservatives
Way
Tend
Put
Primary
Along
Instrument
Left
Getting
Center
Really
Therefore
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
Bill Gates
Government
You
People
Will
Fall
Constant
Pretty
Attention
Highly
Qualified
Instrument
Well
Without
Doing
Very
Blunt
Realism
Certain
Right
Things
Representative democracy is a remarkably blunt instrument. Hundreds of issues are bundled together at every election, yet the vote tends to swing on just one or two of them.
George Monbiot
Democracy
Vote
Together
Election
Every
Hundreds
One Or Two
Remarkably
Tends
Instrument
Issues
Representative
Just
Blunt
Just One
Them
Swing
Two
When you think about choir music, that's a cappella. You have church choir that you would sing without any instrument. I think the popular form that we have now is barbershop in the 20th century, and the collegiate movement.
Kevin Olusola
Music
You
Church
Think
I Think
Would
About
Sing
Instrument
20th Century
Without
Any
Movement
Form
Century
Choir
Cappella
Popular
Now
Organizations are accumulations of historical debris. They are not consciously thought. So when you ask the Education Ministry ‘What's your core function and who's your client?' they laugh at you. When I say that the client is the Afghan child - and the Ministry is an instrument, not the goal - it's greeted with shock. It's a new idea.
Ashraf Ghani
Education
You
Thought
Say
Laugh
Ministry
Idea
New
Instrument
Client
New Idea
Goal
Historical
Debris
Shock
Child
Afghan
Ask
Your
Organizations
Function
Core
I don't believe in getting a lot of new gear all the time, so I get very deeply into one instrument and use it for many years.
Jon Hopkins
Time
Believe
Gear
New
Instrument
Years
Lot
Very
Get
Getting
Use
Many
Deeply
One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability.
Lupita Nyong'o
Best
You
Sometimes
School
Feeling
Drama
Tools
Reliable
Ability
About
Instinct
Instrument
Yale
Because
Felt
Off
Grad
Grad School
Getting
Going
Just
Acting
Use
Reasons
Why
And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.
Tim Commerford
Music
Guitar
Late
Way
Saxophone
Invented
1930s
Computer
Attention
Instrument
Got
Grabbed
Same
Realizing
Ear
Started
The key demand for me from the public across the 34 provinces is to transform the state into an instrument of the rule of law, transform the economy into a productive system and change the education system.
Ashraf Ghani
Education
Me
Change
Key
Law
State
Rule
Rule Of Law
System
Demand
Economy
Instrument
Provinces
Transform
Public
Across
Productive
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David Thoreau
Strings
All Things
Tension
Like
Instrument
Fibers
Strained
Things
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