Strumming Quotes

• If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Army

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

  Roberta Flack

  Song, Pain, Rock And Roll

  Song: Killing Me Softly with His Song, Album: Killing Me Softly

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• But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

  Jason Mraz

  Heart, Guitar, Voice

  "Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. May 1, 2012.

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• Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know?

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Yoga, Home, Mean

  FaceBook post by Jake Shimabukuro from Sep 18, 2014

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• I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive because I'm listening to the rain, and the rain becomes the hand of God strumming his fingers on the roof, deciding what to do.

  Lisa Genova

  Life, Rain, Hands

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Left Neglected”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Teenage, Kids, Mirrors

  "Portrait of the artist: Jon Bon Jovi, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

  Stark Sands

  Guitarist

  Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. April 14, 2010.

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• Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

  Rupert Grint

  Littles, Banjos, Standing

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• Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

  Dave Barry

  Guitar, Tables, Picnics

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.12, Ballantine Books

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• Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Sweet, Moving

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.740, Penguin

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• I don't really break into too many solos. But I've never been a super-big solo guy anyway. I like to make the main melody guitar lines of the songs as cool and interesting as possible without just strumming chords. I like to have chords intertwined with riffs here and there, but I'll do the riffs and the solos where the bottom will drop out. Basically, I do everything for the song, I don't do it for the solo glory. Kids aren't really into that anymore for some reason.

  Mark Tremonti

  Song, Kids, Guitar

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• The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Senior, Hipster, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Song, Simple, Guitar

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• I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.

  Steve Martin

  Song, Book, Play

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• The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes. And then I start singing the chorus. Right to her. And she smiles at me, and it’s like we’re the only two people out here, the only ones who know what’s happening. Which is that this song we’re all singing together is being rewritten. It’s no longer an angry plea shouted to the void. Right here, on this stage, in front of eighty thousand people, it’s becoming something else. This is our new vow.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Eye, Two

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• If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Army

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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