Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
I can fish from a stick and a string.
Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!
When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.
I have sounded the very base-string of humility.
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.
A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.
I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
Our intention is to develop more subtlety in contemporary electronic sounds. We don't like nostalgic projects. We have disparate interests and many philosophical concerns. In the past 10 years, I have realized music in the classical tradition - I have composed for strings, brass, and electronic, and alp-horn!
A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.