#instrument

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

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Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

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In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study. ↗

— Alma Gluck

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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. ↗

— Martha Graham

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Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#acoustic guitar #adding #doing #emphasis #folk

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice. ↗

— Billy Higgins

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