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The harmonica is a great instrument.


Toots Thielemans

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TEKOA MANNING There's great majesty with the instrument. There's also great sensitivity.
JUDY KORT Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
HUMPHREY DAVY Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
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LAUREN MYRACLE I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
SAM BARRY I like Barrington Leavey; he's the best, and Toots and The Maytals are also the best.
ADAM LAMBERG I can play the harmonica with my nose.
CHORD OVERSTREET Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.
JOHN SEBASTIAN Every now and then I'll play a harp or harmonica.
ERIC TEPE A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
ERNEST MANDEL Money is a constructive instrument for the rich & a destructive instrument for the poor.
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PETE TOWNSHEND In the process of them developing this instrument, I've been playing the melodica in the style I...
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J.R. RIM I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.
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DAN QUAYLE So we played one, and then he got a harmonica and played with us.
JACOB ELLER Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether pec...
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
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DANNY KAYE I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
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PAUL SIMON They are a blunt force instrument, versus a fine surgical instrument.
ALAN GLICKSTEIN I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
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Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
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CARMELO ANTHONY I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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LEO THE GREAT They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
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