#instruments

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. ↗

— David Del Tredici

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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

— Richard Thompson

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If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once. ↗

— Brian Eno

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Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one. ↗

— Tony Visconti

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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. ↗

— George Washington

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My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. ↗

— Alan Watts

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David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm. ↗

— Jack White

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