Top 856 String Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.
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.
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
Very few guitarists play nylon-string. They don't know how to get the sound out of them. That's something I've spent a lot of time on.
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads
I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.
I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.
Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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!
It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.
When I'm scoring something like a string quartet, it's all notated music, so it's meticulously written in the score, which is very different than doing things by ear.
I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.
My work on symmetries of string theory is on what is known as strong-weak coupling duality, or S-duality.
If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
I would say the best toy for any cat is always some sort of dangling item on a string or fishing-rod-type structure.
We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.
In 1999, we went into the World Cup with a string of victories behind us but we could not handle the pressure and ended up letting ourselves down.
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen, on opposite coasts of the country.
I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.
I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the world as possible so I could hoard time to write.
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.
Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.
Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.
You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.
My body wasn't made to look good in a string bikini. It was made to feed and nurture a child.
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything
You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
Using string bends instead of just playing regular, unbent notes can definitely help give certain riffs a cooler, heavier edge.
I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know?
A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Tons of people struggle to pronounce words, remember information, and string sentences together, particularly as they age. Biden, already the oldest president in U.S. history, is no exception.
When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.
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.
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.
Everybody goes through situations like this. A tipped ball, a shoe-string tackle on a third-down scramble by the quarterback where he has 40 yards to run.
Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.
Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
Let the piano's martial blast
Rouse the Echoes of the Past
String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.
String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.
My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.
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.
