Frets Quotes

#1. I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

Jaco Pastorius

#2. A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#3. The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#4. The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand ...

Oscar Wilde

#5. I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Alvin Lee

#6. Life is still as never was,
One Seems dead yet still is alive.
Man frets for things, things he can buy,
All's for sale but not life.
Life is there when a friend is there,
A friend like you worth more than life.

Amit Abraham

#7. There was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others, as an insult.

Emily Bronte

#8. The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.

Gerald Massey

#9. I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

Robin Trower

#10. This is the monkey mind of which Zen speaks: the mind that worries, doubts, frets about the past, makes lists, all the time chattering like a monkey.

Patricia Monaghan

#11. Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

#12. The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn't do what we do without the classical training. It's a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play.

Luka Sulic

#13. Praise - actual personal praise - oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#14. Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

William Shakespeare

#15. None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.

Connie Willis

#16. Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

Maeve Brennan

#17. Without missing a beat Roger says, All the moneys right down here and points to the 1st three frets.

Roger Miller

#18. We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

James Buchan

#19. I measure the coffee exactly. Pour in the water. As the flavor bursts, she surrenders. "Oh, you are old for such a long time!" She frets over the sugar bowl in the center of a tin tray. "You think it won't happen to you, but it will. You may live a long time, but most of life is old, old, old!

Brock Cole

#20. It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

Juliet Blackwell

#22. While Eeyore frets ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ... Pooh just is.

Benjamin Hoff

#23. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.

Kate Atkinson

#24. Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

Max Lucado

#25. Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

William Shakespeare

#26. The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

Eddie Van Halen

#27. With Mrs. Morel it was one of those still moments when the small frets vanish, and the beauty of things stands out, and she had the peace and the strength to see herself.

D.H. Lawrence

#28. I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.

Colin Farrell

#29. We have become masters of projection - pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.

Darren Main

#30. I like writing for children because they are not prejudiced against magic.

J.P. Hightman

#31. I felt God had conned me by telling me to marry Grace, and allowed Grace to rule over me since she was controlling our sex life. I loved Grace, but in the bedroom I did not enjoy her and wondered how many years I could white-knuckle fidelity.

Mark Driscoll

#32. Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him ... but here we are.

Pope Francis