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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing. Gary Numan

I can do a gig without an instrument. Gavin DeGraw

Gig Instrument Without

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up. George Benson

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Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. George Gallup

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. George Santayana

Witness Reward Mind Instrument Operation Body Function

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument. George Stevens

People Instrument Always Camera

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album! Georgia May Jagger

Music People Some People Think Honestly Musical Launch Some Born About Knack Singer Instrument Terrible Very Interested Play Album

The main thing is the ability to control your instrument, which, in the actor, is yourself. Look the way you want the character to look. Sound the way you want the character to sound. Once you've trained the instrument to do what you want, you're in control, and you're free. Geraldine Page

Character You Yourself Free Control Once Way Ability Main Main Thing Look Instrument Sound Trained Want Which Your Actor Thing

For Italy, sanctions are never an end; they are an instrument that must be overcome as soon as possible. Giuseppe Conte

Overcome Possible Must Never Soon Instrument Italy End Sanctions

I think there's a fallacy that's been concocted by the music teachers' profession, to wit: that there's a certain sequence of events necessary in order to have the revealed truth about the way one produces a given effect on a given instrument. Glenn Gould

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. Gloria Estefan

The United Nations, and the way we approach collective security, must be adapted to changing circumstances. The United Nations is our prime instrument for effective multilateral solutions and a rule-based international order. Goran Persson

Collective United Nations Changing Approach Our Way Circumstances Security Must Solutions Prime Instrument Effective Nations Order International Multilateral United Adapted

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers. Greg Iles

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But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. Gunther Schuller

My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument. Gustavo Santaolalla

Music You Parents Sense Musical Records Know Instrument None Were Very Lovers Them Avid Play Actually Buyers

One of the things that was a blessing for me is my parents were music lovers. Neither of my parents played an instrument, but they were avid record buyers. And I grew up at every age listening to all kinds of music. Gustavo Santaolalla

In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals. H. R. McMaster

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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha! Hal Sparks

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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. Hale White

Myself Every Virtue Worry Possess Faculty Instrument Which Used

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. Hannah Arendt

Matter Become Revolution Reputation International Relations Relations Uncertain More Instrument Dubious Affairs Domestic Gained Appeal International Specifically Violence

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best. Henning Mankell

Life Best Myself Me Survival World Mother Will Value My Life Imagination Photo Disappeared Instrument Forces Because Greatest Real Still Idol Wall Same Eight The Real World Real World Ever Imagined

God offers us counsel not just for our own safety, but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love. There are few comforts so sweet as to know that we have been an instrument in the hands of God in leading someone else to safety. That blessing generally requires the faith to follow counsel when it is hard to do. Henry B. Eyring

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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. Henry Ward Beecher

Life Instrument End Riches

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. Herb Alpert

Singing Lyrical Instrument Trumpet

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