Instrument Quotes - page 27

Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note. (Steve Albini)
Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago. View quote
Steve Vai
My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today. View quote
Steve Vai
Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other. View quote
Steve Vai
The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune. View quote
Steve Vai
Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place. View quote
Steven Adler
It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities. View quote
Stjepan Hauser
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument. View quote
Suzi Quatro
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic. View quote
Samuel Freeman Miller
I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic. View quote
Scott Michael Foster
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is. (Tod Machover)
I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color. View quote
Theophilus London
Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson. View quote
Theophilus London
I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be. View quote
Victoria Legrand
Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life. View quote
Yelawolf
The piano is the only keyboard instrument in which one can grandly vary the effects of the harmonics or overtones of a chord at will by balancing the sonority in different ways. View quote
Charles Rosen
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. View quote
Dante Alighieri
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. View quote
Yoko Ono
That instrument(The Constitution) meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The construction applied ... to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power ... ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument. (Thomas Jefferson)
The biggest danger to our rights today is not from government acting against the will of the majority but from government which has become the mere instrument of that majority. Think about it. That's where the abuse of power comes from. Not the tyranny of the King but the tyranny of the majority. Wrong will be done as much by an all-powerful people as by an all-powerful Prince. View quote
James Madison
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer! View quote
Dave Grohl
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. View quote
Michael Shermer
The Society, founded upon the highest ethical and social principles, serves as an example for homosexuals to follow, and provides a dignified standard upon which the rest of society can base a more intelligent and accurate picture of the nature of homosexuality than currently obtains in the public mind. The Society provides the instrument necessary to work with civic minded and social valuable organizations, and supplies the means for the assistance of our people whoa re victimized daily as a result of our oppression. Only a Society providing an enlightened leadership can rouse the homosexuals - one of the largest minorities in America today - to take the actions necessary to elevate themselves from the social ostracism an unsympathetic culture has perpetrated upon them. View quote
Harry Hay