#instrument

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals. ↗

— John Entwistle

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In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#culture #everyone #find #fingers #get

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#imperceptibly #instruments #make #set #similarly

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. ↗

— Fred Allen

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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#apparently #base #contempt #due #exposing

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#dead #experience #exploring #ground #instrument

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always. ↗

— Bjork

#being #easy #full #house #instruments

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#buying #gear #i #instruments #long

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments. ↗

— Beck

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