Michael Stipe
Related You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my... CHARLIE WORSHAM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The rules only applied toCAMERON STRACHER I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just ac... SHAMIR CASSANDRA CLARE My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular musi... JAMES BLUNT Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things t... MARY STUART MASTERSON I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. EVAN PARKER JON BON JOVI RITCHIE BLACKMORE He took off his diaper himself and we told him to put it in the trash. And he did, he picked it up a... JEFF LARSON YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO CASSANDRA CLARE CHRISTINE MCVIE We have no way of knowing how much drugs he consumed, just that he did. En route back, the victim go... JOSEPH CONTI I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ... ALAN YATES RAF SIMONS [The zoo offers the tactile experience of sliding a bow across the strings of a fiddle, plucking a s... CONNIE ALLEN SUNDAY ADELAJA Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing son... HENRY GARZA One of the remarkable things about Dad is the way he could mingle different, seemingly disparate mus... CHRISTOPHER RIDDLE What we devised for The Full Monty was a little sort of odd band full of slightly unusual instrument... ANNE DUDLEY EMMET FOX Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That... JEFF LYNNE What impressed me about Peter is that although he was a poet himself, he reviewed poetry for the lov... IRENE CLURMAN DAVE BARRY CHARLES CALEB COLTON As long as you're respected among your peers, that's all that matters, and he has my utmost respect.... BARON DAVIS Martin was the catalyst ... he had been producing light comedy and classical until then and had no e... MARK MAXSON I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ... ALAN YATES JANET FITCH Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future--instruments he rever... HOWARD FAST Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter hear... BIBLE Everyone grows up and changes ... like George Michael when he was in Wham and things like that, he's... BRIAN HARVEY C.S. LEWIS And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: beho... BIBLE The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and shoul... ANNA GARLIN SPENCER I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up w... DUSTIN LYNCH TONY VISCONTI JAMES MADISON He pulled out the feeding tube that was inserted through his nose into his stomach by himself, but t... CAROL COOPER RYLEY I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena... CECILIA BARTOLI CRAIG GROESCHEL PAULO COELHO CASSANDRA CLARE STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY Piano feels soft. Violins and all different string instruments feel soft. Guitar, even electric guit... TY DOLLA SIGN DEYTH BANGER LUCAS GRABEEL TERRY EAGLETON Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed th... FARAAZ KAZI AYN RAND CASSANDRA CLARE CASSANDRA CLARE is my fault".CASSANDRA CLARE is my fault". CASSANDRA CLARE He was putting too much pressure on himself. Instead of just being the best Dave Bullock he could be... BOB HURLEY MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS TOM BROKAW BRIAN ENO DEYTH BANGER Randy was there so long, and he was put up on such a pedestal. When he does that kind of thing he le... GUS FREROTTE There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new albu... JOHN BONHAM I grew up in the Midlands area of England around the Birmingham area and when I was four years old, ... DAVE HOLLAND He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar ... B. SMITH Whenever the word 'instrument' is used, it has to be in reference to medical instruments. For all ot... APURVA GAGLANI IAN ANDERSON Feast of Philip & James, Apostles What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -... ST. ATHANASIUS BILLY WILDER These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and... WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY Mr. Howard wrote the piece to create a picture of the Grand Canyon. When we talked, what instruments... STEVEN BYESS GEORGE BERNARD SHAW So when he was 12, he went out and got a guitar. He had to be on the honor roll to get one, so he di... BOB KLEIN All his life Harry Bosch believed he had a mission. And to carry out that mission he needed to be bu... MICHAEL CONNELLY SUNDAY ADELAJA DAN HICKS HENRI LOUIS BERGSON Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce... PATRICK LABYORTEAUX PAULO COELHO CHRISTINA ENGELA It turns out to be a sick sound. Every member of the band has their main instrument and one or two o... MARC FRIEDMAN I was down in blackjack, now I'm up 600 bucks so I'm pretty excited about that. My dealer was Alfie,... ANDY RODDICK My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano. TOD MACHOVER He was a complete surprise as far as I was concerned. There was a void in the lineup and there were ... GARY THOMPSON DIANA GABALDON
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You promise." "I swear on the angel. The hell with that. I swear on us." "Why us?" "Because there is... 
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I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hea... 
How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinne... 
We picked up the instruments and hammered through about 10 songs without batting an eye, just brushi... 
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The children of God are His instruments on the earth 
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He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. 
What is the Other?" they ask.
My rapier wit hides my inner pain. 
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he was himself, with all the quirks that a human being has. 
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Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. 
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