I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.
I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
