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“We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?”

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Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.”

Knows Women Pleasure Study Position Instruments Strings Delightful Trembling Keyboards Capricious

Book:Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

“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.”

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Author:Debbie Harry

“When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.”

Play Half Instruments Guitar Tunes Strings Other Half Tuning

Author:Pete Seeger

“There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.”

“The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.”

Life Heart Magic Instruments Stealing Strings Mystic

Book:The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

“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.”

Humans Heart Suffering Heaven Fire Tears Instruments Stealing Golden Human Life Strings Thread Rainbow Woven Robes Radiance Hue Spun

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.”

Heart Harmony Instruments Musical Strings Chords Musical Instruments

Author:Saadi

“Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.”

Thinking Feels Looks Has Beens Made Matter Too Much Instruments Guitar Necks Strings Picky

Author:James Hetfield

“There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.”

Men Process Animal Duty Research Instruments Plant University Boards Soil Strings Professors Construction Orchestra Describing Examining

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.”

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Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.”

Trying Whole Might Turns Sound Produce Overcoming Responsible Instruments Guitar Limitation Range Designer Strings Engineers Electric Hendrix Electric Guitar Amplifiers

Author:Brian Eno

“The first instrument I had was made in the late '70s. Back then they had basically one tuning. I shifted slightly away from that tuning right away (to what is now called the Baritone Melody Tuning), because I wanted more string overlap between the two sides.The instrument I currently play has an active pickup system, Fret Rails, a fully adjustible bridge, adjustible truss, Flaps adjustible nut. Even with all of these advances, I'm always struck when I play the older instrument how good they were even then. Emmett's always been great at implementing his ideas.”

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Author:Greg Howard

“You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.”

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Author:Keith Morris

“I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even if you play an open string, you feel it.”

Ifs Feels Enough Play Body Instruments Size Your Body Strings Vibrate

Author:Tod Machover

“String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.”

Want Should Theory Instruments Seven Instance Dimensions Strings Just Listen String Theory

Author:Fabiola Gianotti

“The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.”

Trying Body Hands Earth Form Secret Divine Instruments Strings Tuning

Book:The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World

Source: The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World

“You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.”

Way Two Together Views Logic Instruments Fishes Point Of View Holes Collections Injury Strings Tied Reverse Two Ways Lexicographer

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time”

Play Lasts Broken Instruments Strings Last Time

Author:John Green

“What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.”

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Book:Day watch

Source: Day watch

“During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests and kings. Often times they had as many as 21 strings. Under the manipulation "the Minstrels of the Gods" the music was of rare potency. "Musical Medicine" was an actuality. Healing, along with numerous so-called "supernatural feats" was attributed to this art.”

“There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.”

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Author:Lara St. John

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