Strings Quotes - Page 18

• It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

  John Frusciante

  People, Pieces, Woods

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• The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.

  Franz Liszt

  Law, Foundation, Thrones

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• The first track is the end of a string.  At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it.  The mystery reveals itself slowly, track by track, giving its genealogy early to coax you in.  Further on, it will tell you the intimate details of its life and work, until you know the maker of the track like a lifelong friend.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Moving, Feet, Track

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• After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Couple, Play, Work Out

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• In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Two, Historical, Trios

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• You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.

  Tasha Tudor

  Lying, Sunset, Fire

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• All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

  Edmund Waller

  Slender, Humans, Values

  Edmund Waller (1729). “The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose”, p.9

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• Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

  Roy H. Williams

  Science, Economy, Mechanic

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• There is a string that connects us that is not visible to the eye. Maybe every person has more than one soul they are connected to, and all over the world there are those invisible strings... Maybe the chances that you'll find each and every one of your soul mates is slim. But sometimes you're lucky enough to stumble across one. And you feel a tug. And it's not so much a choice to love them though their flaws and through your differences, but rather you love them without even trying. You love their flaws.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Love, Eye, Differences

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• Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

  Roy H. Williams

  Light, Different, Gravity

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• I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thinking, Band, Stuff

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• An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Garden, Cities

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Thinking, Numbers, World

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.223, Penguin

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• If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.

  Michael Shannon

  Believe, Sky, Principles

  "Michael Shannon: 'I'm not trying to exorcise any demons'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Inspiration, Artist, Long

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• The moon twangs its silver strings;
  The river swoons into town;
  The wind beds down in the pines,
  Covers itself with stars.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Stars, Moon, Wind

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• When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with a violin. Begin with the basics. If you forget, you will not forgive at all. You can never forgive people for things you have forgotten about. You need to forgive precisely because you have not forgotten what someone did; your memory keeps the pain alive long after the hurt has stopped. Remembering is the storage of pain. It is why you need to be healed in the first place.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hurt, Pain, Memories

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• I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Running, Philosophy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.408, editionNEXT.com

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• But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.

  A.S. King

  Bullshit, Feel Good, Rumor

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• My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

  Ben Marcus

  Book, Age, Wire

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• How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

  William Blake

  Love, Moving, Sound

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.12, Routledge

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• Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Wise, Lying

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• I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

  Zacky Vengeance

  Guitar, Wiggling, Fingers

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• My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

  Chris Isaak

  Guitar, Records, Expenses

  "Q&A WITH CHRIS ISAAK : So '60s Square, So '90s Cool". Interview with Jean Rosenbluth, articles.latimes.com. April 21, 1993.

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• When it seems like the night will last forever,
  And there's nothing left to do but count the years,
  When the strings of my harp to sever,
  And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears...
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And dream me a dream of my own,
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And sing me a song of my own.

  Robert Hunter

  Dream, Song, Fall

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