When you have strings, everybody pulls you here and pulls you there.

- Fuzzy Zoeller

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

- Jules Shear

Bjork's album, 'Homogenic,' it's got beats, strings, traditional Icelandic stuff. That's my benchmark for what an album should sound like, right up there with Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' and Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On.'

- Jason Moran

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

- Jimmy Page

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.

- Jeffrey Kluger

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.

- James Hetfield

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

- Jeff Bridges

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

- Henry George Bohn

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

- Henry David Thoreau

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

- Georg Buchner

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

- Aldous Huxley

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

- Edmund Waller

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

- Christopher Columbus

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

- Charles Dickens

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

- Cat Stevens

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

- Brenda Lee

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

- Brian Eno

Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.

- Apollonius of Tyana

Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic,' Sometimes I get annoyed when they say my stuff sounds 'like Satie'. No, it doesn't. At least, I don't think so.

- Agnes Obel

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

- Amelia Barr