#instrument

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#direction #instruments #modern #sound #throw

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.' ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#apparatus #ask #common #frequently #instrument

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#heat #horrible #imaginable #instrument #martyrdom

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument. ↗

— Max Roach

#got #instrument #me #musical #off

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#amount #any #arrangements #dad #detail

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#inefficient #instead #instrument #losses #multiplies

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. ↗

— Elton John

#fabulous #gift #had #instrument #jerry

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else? ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#background #bar #become #classical #day

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#am #better #better world #building #concerned

People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with. ↗

— Kimbra

#differently #instrument #jeff #learn #like