Accompaniment Quotes

While I pray for those who are hit by this scourge, I encourage those in the Church who carry out an invaluable service of acceptance, care and spiritual accompaniment to our brothers and sisters. - Pope John Paul II

We've compiled the ultimate Tony Hawk music lineup... Whether skating their way through East L.A. or biking through Hollywood, the soundtrack will draw players into the game with its perfect accompaniment to the adrenaline pumping action. - Tim Riley

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts / a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments. - Henry David Thoreau

Usually this music is played only by a harp. If there's any accompaniment it's a harpsichord or guitar. When we played in Ireland, my five string banjo was a curiosity. - Bob Frost

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic. - Gore Vidal

Their progress from singing in unison with some accompaniment to doing three- and four-part a cappella has been quite an accomplishment. - Ray McDaniel

The live accompaniment really adds to the drama and power of the experience. It is a very rare opportunity. - James D'Arc

Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon? - Peter Tosh

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world. - Margaret Oliphant

My father played the piano remarkably well, in particular Chopin, Grieg, Beethoven and Scriabin. During the civil war he earned a living by playing the accompaniment to silent films at the cinema. - Andrei Sakharov