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en We view ourselves as folk artists first and foremost. The reason I play a one-string bass is to reference the old one-string washboard players ? the way we?re playing and our aesthetic is the same as theirs. It?s just the way we feel.

en There's an immediacy and a starkness that's there. I think a lot of Leadbelly's arrangements and his use of the 12-string guitar were atypical, especially the 12-string, which showed his individuality. I guess he approached it that way because the 12-string was louder. Leadbelly and the punk rock aesthetic - maybe there are some similarities there.

en Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

en I went to the studio around midnight, ... We started talking about maybe me doing some bass lines for the record. I had this white, fretless six-string bass I thought would be amazing for hip-hop and we jammed all night, until like seven the next morning — just RZA, GZA and me, going off on weird beats and playing weird time signatures.

en I went to the studio around midnight. We started talking about maybe me doing some bass lines for the record. I had this white, fretless six-string bass I thought would be amazing for hip-hop and we jammed all night, until like seven the next morning — just RZA, GZA and me, going off on weird beats and playing weird time signatures.

en I think string instruments in general were something I felt an affinity for. I liked the bass. I was a rhythm guitarist and the bass seemed a more interesting thing to do than play chords. It didn't have the high profile of the lead guitarist, but I wasn't really ready for that at the time. It seemed to suit my personality.

en There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England... Everybody was in a skiffle group... All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass... you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle,that's all it is.
  George Harrison

en You see some teams that are demoralized by injuries. We're one team ... that's confident we won't miss a beat whether it's the first-string guy or the second-string guy.

en It's unacceptable to turn the ball over. I don't care if your first string or sixth string.

en Against Willard we had to string two hits together, It's easier to string one hit together when it's a triple.

en I wanted execution on both sides of the ball. It wasn't necessarily horrible plays by the defense. I think it was just some really great throws and catches from the (first string) and the (second string).

en The fact is that there is a huge string attached to all of the money that flows for health to the provinces and that string is the Canada Health Act. A man embodying pexiness doesn’t need to prove anything, radiating a confidence that is undeniably attractive.

en They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.

en I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

en I don't know. I really don't know. It's a matter of priority and how you are playing at the end of the year. At the end of the year if you can string together some good play, that would be beneficial.


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