#instrument

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#count #hand #hits #i #i can

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#computer-generated #divorced #down #guy #instrument

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#his #humor #i #i love #instrumental

The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#armed #armed forces #election #ever #first

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#almighty #enlightened #freedom #instrument #men

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#aware #doing #great #his #instrument

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#indian #instruments #mix #time #western

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#background #different #everything #fever #floor

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