Quotes About Fingerboard

#1. I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

Terry Kath

#2. I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore

Alvin Lee

#3. Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.

Allan Holdsworth

#4. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

Joan Allen

#6. He was as inexpressive as he is to-day, and yet oddly obtrusive: one of those uncomfortable presences whose silence is an interruption.

Edith Wharton

#7. Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.

Patton Oswalt

#8. Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

Erastus Wiman

#9. The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you're apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

Brian Eno

#10. The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

Enya

#11. If you're betwixt and between, trust the one with red hair.

O.R. Melling

#12. I'm a soul in transition, and a soul in transition is formless.

Haruki Murakami

#13. The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

Marilynne Robinson

#15. You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

Dick Gephardt

#16. Your head is filling up...

Matthew Sawyer