#instrument

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly. ↗

— James Chanos

#accounted #any #derivatives #done #evil

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#i #instruments #means #play #suppose

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. ↗

— Jay London

#blunt #bought #father #i #instrument

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inefficient #instead #instrument #losses #multiplies

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words. ↗

— Kenny G

#being #emotion #even #feel #great

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine. ↗

— Kenny G

#create #fine #i #i do #improvise

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special. ↗

— Kenny G

#every #friday #i #instrumental #just

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#do the right thing #fans #how #i #instrument

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. ↗

— Ted Lange

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Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#attack #attic #bits #construction #development