Sister Cartwright

I like things that are interesting.

Cheers, Levon. And thanks.

In real life, a spider doesn’t spin words in her web. In real life, a swan doesn’t blow a trumpet. But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.

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E. B. White 

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It’s a little misleading to say three fingers. It’s actually two fingers, middle and index finger, and your thumb, and it’s kind of — some of the rolls will go, if you number your thumb one, the index two and your middle finger three, it’s like a one-two-three roll, over and over. But to do a tune, it’s like trying to say every word with the exact same amount of syllables in the word. You’ve got to alternate the rolls some to make the tune flow.

—Banjo player Earl Scruggs talked to Terry Gross about his signature picking method. (via nprfreshair)

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