#string

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#fine #hand #i #i can #just

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#attempts #became #came #could #couple

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#each #i #instrumentalist #string #try

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#believe #his #improvising #one thing #played

I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#any #believer #bring #called #concerts

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. ↗

— Pythagoras

#humming #music #spheres #strings

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. ↗

— Edward Witten

#basic #basic things #beauty #different #different shapes

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#comedy #stringent #very

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. ↗

— Richard Russo

#efficiently #handle #movies #necessarily #novels

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#arranger #british #does #hale #records