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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. Johann Sebastian Bach

Time, Key, Easy, Play, You, Right Time

My first musical dream was to be a guitar player, and believe me, it's still in there. Kristian Nairn

Me, Believe, Dream, Guitar, First, Still

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. Claude Debussy

Nature, Sunset, Beautiful, Book, Will

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. William Christopher Handy

Love, Mind, World, Falling In Love, Like

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. Kurt Cobain

Freedom, Pain, Suffering, World, Saying

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Alan Watts

Experience, God, Eyes, Brain, Possible

I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that, every time I leverage my name, I want people to feel sure that it's going to be something good - so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it'll be good work, good food and good everything. Shilpa Shetty

Work, Good, Time, Food, Good Food, Name

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it. Dolly Parton

Life, Music, My Life, Story, Life Story

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice. Dayananda Saraswati

Voice, Human Being, Human, Greatest

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.' Gloria Estefan

Life, Love, Art, Do What You Love, Rest

I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc. J. D. Souther

Life, Family, Music, Time, Father, Dream

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. David Bowie

Music, God, Effort, Writing, Information

When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret. Emilia Fox

School, Regret, Loved, Play, Choose

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive. Jaron Lanier

Experience, Mind, Body, Possibilities

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary. Barbara Kruger

Art, Experience, World, Moments, Flow

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. Howard Gardner

Brain, World, Language, Believe, Content

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be. Russell M. Nelson

Focus, World, Choir, Like, Experts

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality. Chris Cornell

Music, Attitude, Parents, Style, People

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it. Ed Asner

Beautiful, Myself, Worthy, Role, Scripts

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. Max von Sydow

Mother, Language, Think, Tongue, Rich

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that'll be the thing to do. Todd Rundgren

Work, Music, Disco, Movement, Everyone

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time. Frank Ocean

Music, Time, Art, Best, Great, Process

There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric. Lin-Manuel Miranda

Treat, You, Hip-Hop, More, Used, Joke

As we develop, I just see us following our heart on this musical journey. M. Shadows

Journey, Heart, See, Us, Just, Following

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line; there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that. Amitabh Bachchan

Life, People, Poverty, Cinema, Colorful

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. - Henry David Thoreau

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. Henry David Thoreau

Justice, Sweet, Injustice, Harsh

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