Quotes About String Instruments

#1. It was a ridiculous question. Did I _love_ Char? Did I feel about Char the same way I feel about the Beatles, string instruments in pop songs, the way Little Anthony sang high notes, the way Jerry Lee Lewis played piano?

Leila Sales

#2. I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.

Jon Tester

#3. How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?

Dov Davidoff

#4. Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants, and in all cases, their size and their material construction are totally different matters even though they affect one another.

John Tyler Bonner

#5. In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

Kevin Eubanks

#6. I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.

Debbie Harry

#7. that town, they had gone under and now just the rotting empty shell remained. Having left all that was his home

Tim Heath

#8. Priest and wise man and prophet alike felt that their professional well-being was threatened by Jeremiah's singularity. Panicked, they plotted his disgrace. Their "law" and "counsel" and "words" were in danger of being exposed as pious frauds by Jeremiah's honest and passionate life.

Eugene H. Peterson

#9. I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Rudy Giuliani

#10. "But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.

Paul Washer

#11. The problem is that string theory is defined at an energy scale that is about ten million billion times larger than those we can experimentally explore with our current instruments.

Lisa Randall

#12. Too many talented people string and unstring their instruments without ever playing their music.

Ken Standley

#13. He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

J. F. Powers

#14. We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

John Green

#15. At that time I would read passages of Father's books or a newspaper article that I was certain he had read because I wanted to follow a trail he had taken.

Hisham Matar

#16. In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down, he says.

Pierce Brown