#rum

My first instrument was a little blue ukele. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#first #instrument #little

Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet. ↗

— Beth Orton

#also #always #because #before #drum

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#both sides #certainly #coaches #cross #every

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. ↗

— Evan Parker

#being #does #i #i think #imitated

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#defend #destruction #eventually #fact #inescapable

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint. ↗

— Neil Peart

#drumming #force #really #sprint #stamina

They didn't know anything about the candidates and things of that sort. So they needed guidance. And that league was very instrumental in directing the people in the direction to go. ↗

— Charles Phillips

#anything #candidates #directing #direction #go

There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#back #back up #challenge #crumbles #direction

I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face. ↗

— Augusto Pinochet

#face #grumpy #i #just

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