Six String Quotes

#1. I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

Tom Rush

#2. I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.

Roger McGuinn

#3. I've started a little independent record label called 'Six String Productions' and recorded a couple of tunes, and I hope to do some more with some future artists next year. It's a real passion project of mine.

Tom Felton

#4. I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back;
I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

Jon Bon Jovi

#5. I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy; not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone, and more than a little bit crazy. The old six string was all I had to keep my belly still, and for each full hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill.

Harry Chapin

#6. My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.

Roger McGuinn

#7. I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

Bryan Adams

#8. I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.

Dimebag Darrell

#9. Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

Bryan Adams

#10. The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

Harry Chapin

#11. I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Daphne Du Maurier

#12. Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

William Graham Sumner

#13. I am not a fiction reader. If I already do, I read fiction always more like the illustration of a philosophical-political thesis than a novel. My preference is history. If one does not know history, he is condemned to relive it.

Louis Tobback

#14. I like meat and carbohydrates.

Gabrielle Union

#15. Whatever sentence I extract whole and entire from this cauldron is only a string of six little fish that let themselves be caught while a million others leap and sizzle, making the cauldron bubble like boiling silver, and slip through my fingers.

Virginia Woolf

#16. The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

Jimmy Page

#17. All six of them sat on either side of the long oval conference table, strung out like strong, handsome beads on the string of my love.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. Curtains always hide something, either the good or the bad! Their job is to hide! If you see a curtain covering up an evil, tear it down and throw it away!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. Good customers are an asset which, when wellmanaged and served, will return a handsome lifetime income stream for the company.

Philip Kotler

#20. I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.

Sprague Grayden

#21. I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

John F. Kennedy

#22. I decided that the only way to keep feminine intuition from sneaking through an occasional lucky stab was to stay away from women altogether, which wasn't practical.

Rex Stout

#23. The tube station that arrived from the port had six wide doors, which emptied to the casino floor. Miller accepted a drink from a tired-looking woman in a G-string and bared breasts and found a screen to stand at that afforded him a view of all six doors.

James S.A. Corey

#24. Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

Barry Sanders