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For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

Music is the silence between the notes.

'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.