#instruments

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#guitar #had #hear #i #instruments

Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out." "That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No. Probably not. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #humor #series #sonic-the-hedgehog #the-mortal-instruments

I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#self-importance #opinions

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#down #focus #half #hard #i

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#inquisition #instruments #iron #old #rack

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children? ↗

— Steve Martin

#children #default #find #i #instruments

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid. ↗

— Robert Moog

#building #electronic #had #i #instruments

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. ↗

— Walter Pater

#gather #help #ideas #instruments #may

But Clary never found out what it wasn't, because there was a cry of "Jace!" and Alec appeared, breathless from pushing his way through the crowd to get them. His dark hair was a mess and there was blood on his clothes, but his eyes were bright with a mixture of relief and anger. He grabbed Jace by the front of his jacket. "What happened to you?" Jace looked affronted. "What happened to me?" Alec looked at him, not lightly. "You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?" Jace suggested. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #jace #mortal-instruments #anger