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So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.


Patricia Neal
The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.
Frank Gehry
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When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.


Les Baxter
If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
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I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.
Kim Gordon
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A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.
Nick Hanauer
I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is also more difficult than Batman. Also, a lot of people in Hollywood believe that it's hard to do a big action movie with a female lead. I happen to disagree with that.
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I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.


Leonard Bernstein
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I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands. It's very old and traditional, but then, so is an orchestra and so is a string section.
Jonny Greenwood
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If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.


Woody Guthrie
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I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.


Michael Pena
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As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.


Sam Waterston
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If I disagree with someone, I let them have their say and move on. I don't want to be the one to lecture.
Joe Piscopo
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Good people can disagree - all you want is honesty, because you know, if I disagree, I'm willing to debate you on that, and then let the public decide what's good policy and bad policy.
Russell Pearce
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A fit body gives you confidence. And there's nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you'll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.
Virat Kohli
I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.
Trevor Horn
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People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
Katherine Jenkins
All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.
Charles Petzold
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I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'


Adriane Lenox
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