Strings Quotes - Page 19

• It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting

  John Newcombe

  Cheating, Tennis, Balls

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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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• Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Two, Voice, Together

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2015). “Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.41, Modern Library

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• When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

  Fred Allen

  Music, Cat, Play

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• Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.

  Barbara Johnson

  Time, Brother, Niece

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• Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

  Aldous Huxley

  Gratitude, Thinking, Tongue

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• The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

  St. Jerome

  Jesus, Animal, People

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• We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Attitude, Luxury

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• Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

  Emanuel Ax

  Player, Enough Time, Too Much

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• Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

  Steve Swallow

  Running, Play, Bass

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• Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

  Duncan Sheik

  Doe, Records, Woods

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• Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.

  Jack Johnson

  Future, Hands, Machines

  Song: The Horizon Has Been Defeated, Album: On And On

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• Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.

  Charlie Brooker

  Wish, Way, Boxes

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• I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever, that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their toolshed. So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing. Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone...

  Shane Koyczan

  Lonely, Hurt, Falling In Love

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!

  Abigail Washburn

  Real, Band, Awesomeness

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• Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

  Brian Greene

  Motivation, Inspiration, Curves

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• Never having thought of writing for the guitar, I asked Julian Bream for a chart which would explain what the guitar could do. I managed to write some rather pretty pieces for him, except that the first six notes of the first piece all need to be played on open strings. So when he begins to play the audience will probably think he's tuning the bloody thing up!

  William Walton

  Writing, Thinking, Guitar

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• Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

  William Shakespeare

  Guitar, Degrees, Discord

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 109

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• Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Enlightenment, Introduction

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• I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

  Grant Morrison

  Evil, Wicked, Behind The Scenes

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• God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Guitar, Way

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