If critics find my songs monotonous, then I also find their opinion monotonous.
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.
I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.
The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.
You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits.
Learning to play old instruments was a challenge. How do you learn an instrument no one has played in hundreds of years? The ones that are used today, I was adamant not to hear anyone else play that instrument. I want to approach them as a child and on the basis of each instrument. I wanted my voice to come through, not someone else's.
I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing.