Pastoral Resources

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

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

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.