Strings Quotes - Page 30

• When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.

  Killer Mike

  Talking, Different, Used

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• I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

  David Copperfield

  Years, Cameras, Seven

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• What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.

  Paul Feig

  Successful, Track, Stories

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• I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Kids, Guitar, Play

  "Radiohead's Guitarist Adapts To Life In Widescreen". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 15, 2012.

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• Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

  Seth Gabel

  Baby, Children, Blessed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Choices, Said

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• I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.

  Jam Master Jay

  Guitar, Records, Remember

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• Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

  Rachel Kushner

  Romantic Music, Piano, Orchestra

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• I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

  Bryan Adams

  Real, Rock And Roll, Dimes

  Song: Summer Of '69, Album: Reckless

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• Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

  Bryan Adams

  Thinking, Rock And Roll, Play

  Song: Summer Of '69

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• I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

  Alison Krauss

  School, Band, Incredibles

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• G-strings are uncomfortable. Girls want real knickers now.

  Elle Macpherson

  Girl, Real, Underwear

  "Brief encounters" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2005.

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• The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

  Gerald Massey

  Life, Heart, Magic

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

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• It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Energy, Manipulate

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• Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.

  Rose Macaulay

  Christmas, Lying, Years

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• For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

  Erma Bombeck

  Laughter, Holiday, Play

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.11, Fawcett

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• There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

  Thomas Hood

  Mirth, Melancholy, Chords

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• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sublime, Mind, Steel

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.74, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• [On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur.

  Mary McGrory

  Running, Morning, Men

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• The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.

  Jean Ingelow

  Fog, Long, Red

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.86

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• I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!

  Vinnie Jones

  Mean, Play, Trying

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• I've plenty of bows to my string.

  Vinnie Jones

  Bows, Plenty

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• As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.

  Daniel Cawdry

  Musician, Fruition, Trials

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• Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

  Brenda Lee

  Im Sorry, Song, Nashville

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• It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

  Ed Asner

  Athlete, Years, Hot

  Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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