Acoustic Guitar Quotes

• But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Song, Writing, Reality

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• To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

  Richard Thompson

  Guitar, Bravery, Insanity

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• I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

  Johnny Winter

  Mean, Men, Guitar

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• I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Guitar, Acoustics, Range

  Interview With James Jensen, everon.50megs.com.

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• If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

  Christopher Cross

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

  Delta Goodrem

  Guitar, Piano, Acoustics

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• Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Guitar, Practice

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

  Elliott Smith

  Depressing, Guitar, Play

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• You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

  Steve Vai

  Play, Acoustics, Should

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

  Colin Hay

  Guitar, Singing, Sitting

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• Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Band, Rehearsal

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• I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Guitar, Acoustics, Finesse

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• I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

  Kip Winger

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

  Tommy Shaw

  Real, Keys, Guitar

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• Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

  Jules Shear

  Song, Guitar, Acoustics

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• Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

  Daniel Smith

  Song, Guitar, Together

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• So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

  Steve Forbert

  Moving, Thinking, Feet

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• For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.

  Serj Tankian

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar.

  Miles Teller

  Party, School, Redneck

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

  Kirk Hammett

  Brother, Stars, Air Guitar

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• I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Son, Guitar, Two

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• I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

  Mark Knopfler

  Play, Guitar, Bass

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• This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

  Joan Armatrading

  Dvds, Guitar, Together

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• I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

  Graham Coxon

  Guitar, Lovely, Littles

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