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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.
The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.
DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.
I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.
The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.
Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.
In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
Strings have been a part of my career and my albums since the very first day. 'Snowbird' had beautiful strings.
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
It's weird. I guess I got so used to [g-strings] when I was really young that I just couldn't stand it anymore.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?
If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.
The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
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.
I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.
I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
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.
Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.
Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.
Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.
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.
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
I've always liked string sections. I'm a sucker for melody, so it's fun to have strings add more layer of melody in the arrangement.
It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
A professional notices any small change to their racket, whether it's something a bit different to the grip, the strings or the frame.
America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.
Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.
The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.
I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
The main thing is to have strings to your bow. You get your badges, you see where life is, and then you see what things come your way, if any.
Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.
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.
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.
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.