#instrument

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#because #big #commission #instrumentation #nature

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#china #control #forced #ideology #instrument

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#create #determining #entire #instrument #landscapes

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#now #smithsonian #turntable

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it. ↗

— Vince Neil

#good #good time #guys #i #i think

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#arm #better #haste #his #i

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#how #instrument #jazz #know #must

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain. ↗

— William Petty

#gain #house #instrument #means #nature

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly. ↗

— Liz Phair

#frankly #grandiose #how #i #identity

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#born #character #created #creation #death