Acoustic Music Quotes

• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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• I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

  Graham Nash

  Mean, First Love, Love Is

  "The Eye of the Acoustic Storm". The Acoustic Storm Interview, www.acousticstorm.com.

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• I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

  Bill Bruford

  Play, Acoustics, Trios

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• No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Healing, Matter

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

  Lee Ritenour

  Play, Piano, Bass

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• I've always been fond of acoustic music.

  Ian Anderson

  Acoustics

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• I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.

  Shook

  Piano, Pieces, Acoustics

  Interview with Nathalie L., www.atickettosomewhere.com. October 13, 2012.

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• I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

  Jane Siberry

  Rocks, Watches, Acoustics

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• In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.

  Paul Stookey

  Cat, People, Denver

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• There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those are the instruments they use. It's acoustic music. We don't do that much modern country that has electric guitars and a lot of volume. It's a gentler form of music. It's from the land and comes from the ranchers and farmers.

  Michael Martin Murphey

  Music, Country, Cowboy

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• I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Fans, Albums

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• When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

  Ian Anderson

  Teenager, Rocks, Guitar

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• That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

  Dierks Bentley

  Party, Kids, Nashville

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• I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore or junior, really into folk and acoustic music. Larry Gross, who's the host of "Mountain Stage" on public radio, and B.W. Stevenson, also a musician, were there at the same time, too. Michael was a big inspiration -- through him I discovered Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Jimmy Rogers. Then I ran into Jerry Jeff Walker there in Dallas back when he was just a folk singer. Those are my earliest influences.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Senior, Inspiration, School

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