Flatpick Quotes & Sayings

Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers) — J.R.R. Tolkien

You'll come up with me?"
"I need it here", I said. "The dark. The quiet." A pause.
"The sinlight drove near mad."
"I'd be your dark. — Leah Bobet

I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs. — William J. Clinton

I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun. — Stan Lee

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips. — Eric Clapton

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.' — Buck Owens

It's not over until you win — Les Brown

In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but never in reality. — Madeleine L'Engle

A fool moans when fortune takes him down, and it takes a true fool to moan when fortune takes him up. — Robert Jordan

evolution is blind to the future — Richard Dawkins

My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts. — Chris LeDoux

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay. — Rebecca Solnit

You don't really realize why you get attracted to certain people, and I do think scent has more to do with it than we realize. — Lara Stone