Even on guitars I've had misfortunes. I never used to clip the strings on my guitar and then one day I accidentally poked my right eye with the E-string. My eye just wouldn't stop tearing up and I could barely keep it open. The doctor said I didn't do any major damage, but I had to wear a patch for a little while. I still have a tiny red mark on my eyeball from it; I'm still not sure it's the same.
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.
Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.
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.
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it. ' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.
There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.
Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!
With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.
How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?