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I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
Mike Figgis
Work
Musical
Musical Instrument
Like
Instrument
Were
Camera
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
Mike Pence
Good
Power
Good Intentions
Air
Easily
More
Through
Mesh
Instrument
Readily
Than
Escapes
Intentions
Confined
Fatal
Consequence
Flows
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
Mstislav Rostropovich
Life
Destination
Aim
Piano
Instrument
Make
Cello
Beloved
Violin
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
Muhammad Iqbal
Love
Heart
Made
Mirror
First
Flame
Rose
Sight
Pluck
Since
Like
Instrument
Hang
May
Apart
Fierce
Your
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
You
Own
Jazz
Others
Back
Must
Only
Know
Instrument
How
Up
Times
Them
Your
Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
Patrick Stump
Love
First
Something
Drums
First Love
Instrument
Were
Moves
Rhythm
Need
Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.
Paul Horn
Flute
Pretty
Pick
Like
Instrument
Up
Which
Play
Basically
I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.
Pierce Brosnan
Love
Beautiful
Innocent
Melodic
Ukulele
Something
Instrument
Got
Just
Romantic
Grand
Play
Tone
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.
Randy Bachman
You
World
Guitar
Will
Black
Country
Band
Jazz
Everybody
Incredible
Clarinet
See
Black Sabbath
Classical
Sabbath
Never
Most
Instrument
Rock
Bluegrass
Blues
Acid
Rhythm
Loves
Popular
Playing
Plays
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Reggie Jackson
Finely
More
Instrument
Repetition
Very
After
Tuned
Little
Then
Swing
Baseball
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
Robert Gould Shaw
Myself
Made
Some
Seem
Like
Vengeance
Instrument
Lord
May
Being
Theory
Right
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
Stan Getz
Best
You
Saxophone
Voice
Like
Instrument
Sings
Human
Human Voice
Play
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
Stan Getz
Challenge
Saxophone
Intonation
Imperfect
Outside
Tenor
Soprano
Sing
Instrument
Goes
As Far As
Far
Body
Your
Your Body
Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.
Stephen Hough
Few
Musical
Musical Instrument
Solitary
More
Hours
Instrument
Occupations
Pass
Than
Playing
I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.
Tim Gunn
You
Think
Too
Say
Students
Instrument
Discredit
Just
Being
Blunt
Not Interested
Interested
Mean
Being Mean
Teaching
Found
Early
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.
Tod Machover
Music
Technology
Direction
Hyper
Idea
Instrument
Knows
Built
How
Being
Where
Literally
Meaning
Expression
Right
Basic
Played
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
William Westmoreland
Country
Television
Paralyze
Instrument
Which
At first, I didn't think playing guitar was the right thing for me to do. But after seeing Jimi Hendrix on television the day he died, I realized it was a really cool instrument to play and not wimpy at all, which was how I originally perceived it.
Yngwie Malmsteen
Day
Me
Guitar
First
Think
Jimi Hendrix
Right Thing
Television
Seeing
Perceived
He
Instrument
How
Died
After
The Right Thing
Which
Realized
Really
Cool
Originally
Hendrix
Play
Right
Thing
Playing
I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
Aaron Diehl
Saying
Great
You
Hurdles
First
Jazz
Approach
Easier
Musician
Some
Classical
Various
Pianist
Idea
Instrument
Around
Makes
How
Am
Get
Order
Jazz Musician
Things
I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
Aaron Sorkin
Great
Control
Enough
Kind
Voice
Over
Know
Instrument
Worked
Body
Actor
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
Abe Fortas
Life
Picture
Needless
Responsible
Deliberate
Journalism
Instrument
Sort
Essential
Inflicted
Wanton
Story
Injury
I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.
Adam Schlesinger
Guitar
Sometimes
Write
Piano
Studied
Instrument
Occasionally
Although
Normally
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Actually
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
Adolph Zukor
Smart
Lose
Our
Television
Adopt
Rather
Instrument
Because
Than
Public
Here
Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.
Adrian Younge
Work
Day
Me
You
Every Day
Work Hard
Better
Practice
Every
Fingers
Had
Like
Instrument
Learn
Practicing
How
Train
Get
Hard
Professional
Works
Inclined
Each
Each Day
Keep
Play
Basically
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Aimee Mann
Music
Down
Totally
Guy
Computer-Generated
Divorced
Like
Instrument
Sounds
Lot
Sitting
Literally
The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.
Ajay Naidu
Instrument
Smithsonian
Turntable
Now
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