Strings Quotes - Page 34

• In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Guitar, Japan, People

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• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  Larry Elder

  Law, Benefits, Poor

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• It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.

  Tone-Loc

  Family, Mother, Two

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• I string sounds together. But to string them I have to remember a bunch of old ones I heard somewhere and then juggle them into a new rhythm and shape.

  Frank Loesser

  Together, Sound, Shapes

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• There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We've just be confused by the storm. Science and psychology have played a great part to say nothing of sex.

  Mark Tobey

  Sex, Confused, Two

  "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by William C. Seitz, p. 103, 1983.

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• Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

  Paul Laseau

  Drawing, Sketching, Source

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• My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Past, Doors

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• 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 Henryson

  Bows, Study, Bent

  c.1470 Moral Fables, prologue, l.21-5.

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• Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

  A. A. Milne

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Strings Attached, Perspective

  Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.159, Beacon Press

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• We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

  Jakob Bohme

  Joy, Concerts

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• There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other
  end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sensual and the emotions she articulates
  resonate with the small feelings we have that sometimes are hard to face..there is an edge to
  her songs, but also a softness...she is lyrical and conversational at the same time. Her CD was
  the only one in my machine for a month. Her work inspires me to dig deeper.

  Kathy Mattea

  Song, Cds, Voice

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• A winning wave, (deserving note.)
  In the tempestuous petticote,
  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye
  I see a wilde civility,--
  Doe more bewitch me than when art
  Is too precise in every part.

  Robert Herrick

  Art, Winning, Shoes

  Robert Herrick, “Delight In Disorder”

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• The purse strings tie us to our kind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Ties, Purses, Kind

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.60

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• Water and air He for the Tenor chose,
  Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
  To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave,
  To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave.
  The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow,
  And short and long, were mixt and woven so,
  Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall,
  As made this decent measur'd dance of all.
  And this is Musick.

  Abraham Cowley

  Music, Fall, Moon

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• If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Winning, Years, Nfl

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• A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

  Shel Silverstein

  Food, Cake, Cooking

  Shel Silverstein, “Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich”

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• ... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

  Margaret Deland

  Safety, Aprons, Unsafe

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.164, The Floating Press

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• Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.

  Elizabeth I

  Strong, Two, May

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.262, University of Chicago Press

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• When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

  Paula Fox

  Block, Paris, Glasses

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.35, Macmillan

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• The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

  Saadi

  Heart, Musical, Harmony

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• So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Palaeolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Powerful, Moving, Simple

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• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Book, Hero

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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• The most incredible thing about playing the songs live for people - looking out to the crowd and seeing the different reactions and the different heart-strings and the things that people are relating to that mean something to them, that's crazy.

  Hayley Williams

  Song, Crazy, Heart

  "Interview: Paramore's Hayley Williams On Their Self-Titled Album + 2014 New Zealand Tour!". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

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• I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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