Strings Quotes
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.
Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.
Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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.
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades And the crowds don't remember my name When my hands don't play the strings the same way I know you will still love me the same.
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.
they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.
You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.
you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.
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.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.
Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.
The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.
Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.
