Fretted String Instruments

Famous quotes containing the words fretted, string and/or instruments:

    “If you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “The string quartet plays for itself,
    gently, gently, sleeves and waxy bows.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–84)