#rum

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. ↗

— Bill Kreutzmann

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Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other. ↗

— Keith Thibodeaux

#bought #buy #christmas #continued #dad

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#analysis #believe #decision #decision making #existing

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#comes #could #family #had #i

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#instruments #intestinal #lower #most #music

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself. ↗

— David Tudor

#idea #instrument #itself #just #notion

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#foreign #foreign policy #held #india #instrument

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#birthday party #doing #enough #get #gig

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. ↗

— Simone Veil

#culture #instrument #manufacture #professors #their

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

#forbidden #kill #large #large numbers #numbers