Bigger Quote by Dick Dale

I don't believe that heavy strings make it all that much bigger-sounding. If anything, it can mess up your fingers, and you can get…

— Steve Lukather

... I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I…

— Billy Gibbons

It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too…

— John Petrucci

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

— Edward Witten

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with…

— Les Paul

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.

— Kenny Hickey

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into…

— John Fogerty

The length of a string does not determine the quality of a string. That's true about rides and lives also.

— Uncle Phil

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

— Robin Trower

I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different…

— Dimebag Darrell

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…

— Brian Eno

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

— Carl Sandburg