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

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

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

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

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

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

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.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

My guitar only has five strings ‚cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.