#strings

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#christmas #christmas tree #crazy #down #eyes

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance. ↗

— Paul Martin

#canada #cities #distance #down #endless

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#class #daily #daily lives #expressions #hard

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7. ↗

— Les Paul

#fingers #first #five #go #got

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. ↗

— David Byrne

#body #business #combine #dramatic #drums

All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it. ↗

— Guy Clark

#enjoy #first #form #guitar #gut

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create. ↗

— David Copperfield

#camera #create #fly #i #seven

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#hang #human #human things #slender #strings

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#control #even #had #himself #his

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#arrange #arrangement #arrangements #as far as #basic