quotes about Strings
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We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
-- Alan Moore -
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps...
-- Amedeo Modigliani -
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.
-- Arthur NersesianSource : Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
-- Bill Nighy -
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.
-- Bob Dylan -
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
-- Bob Seger -
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
-- Boz Scaggs -
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In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.
-- Brandon Stanton -
I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
-- Brian Greene -
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
-- Cat Stevens -
My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.
-- Chris Isaak -
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Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
-- Chuck Mangione -
God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.
-- Dave Van Ronk -
Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.
-- David Cronenberg -
A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
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I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
-- Edmund Waller -
One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.
-- Edward Witten -
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So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.
-- Edward Witten -
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
-- Elizabeth Moon -
Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.
-- Frans Johansson -
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
-- George Eliot -
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Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
-- Gertrude Stein -
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
-- Guy Davenport -
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
-- Henry George Bohn -
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Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.
-- Hugh KingsmillSource : Table of Truth (1933) "Two Poems, after A. E. Housman," no. 1
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The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.
-- Jackson Pearce -
We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.
-- Jakob Bohme -
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.
-- James Sellars -
as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.
-- Jane Hirshfield -
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
-- Jeff Bridges -
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We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.
-- John D. Barrow -
Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings
-- John Motson -
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
-- Larry Wall -
Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.
-- Lee HazlewoodSource : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.
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How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
-- Leonard Slatkin -
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There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.
-- Lucy LarcomSource : Lucy Larcom (1889). “A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory”
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If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.
-- Margaret Atwood -
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
-- Margaret Deland -
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Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
-- Marya MannesSource : Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”
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The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.
-- Michael Jackson -
I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart
-- Michael Owen -
Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.
-- Michio Kaku -
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The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
-- Neal A. Maxwell -
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.
-- Paul Davies -
I excel at pulling strings!†said Arachne. “I’m a spider!
-- Rick Riordan -
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I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.
-- Ritchie Blackmore -
Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.
-- Robert HenrysonSource : c.1470 Moral Fables, prologue, l.21-5.
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Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.
-- Rumi -
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A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
-- Sam Harris -
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
-- Sam Trammell -
After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.
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In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.
-- Thomas GoodwinSource : Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.14
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There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
-- Thomas Hood -
There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.
-- Tony Hale -
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson -
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I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
-- Wes Montgomery -
I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.
-- Zacky Vengeance -
How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?
-- Dov Davidoff -
The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.
-- Hamilton LeithauserSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.
-- Mark Kozelek -
I've always loved Ibanez guitars, and in particular 7 strings.
-- Paul Wardingham -
You're your kid's partner, not the person who's pulling all the strings.
-- Ross W. Greene -
One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind.
-- Peter RussellSource : Peter Russell (1997). “Something about poetry: selected lectures and essays by Peter Russell”
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I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.
-- Richard Rodney Bennett -
Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.
-- Roger McGuinn -
The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
-- Roger McGuinn -
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
-- Tommy Bolin -