#instrument

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#goes #instrument #learning #life #like

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#good taste #instrument #need #playing #really

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#become #choose #construction #flatterers #guides

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#angeles #been #blackwell #drum #drums

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?' ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#came #i #improvise #instance #instrument

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#instrument #only #prosperity #used #worshipped

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#becomes #cheating #compromise #everything #instruments

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#handle #how #i #instrument #kind

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order! ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#father #had #hide #house #instruments

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#instruments #parts #play #stage #stage play