Acoustics Quotes

• 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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• I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.

  Naima Adedapo

  Baby, Sound, Showers

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• Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

  Andy Gibb

  Song, Redneck, Guitar

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• One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Ideas, Records, Want

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• I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues

  Johnny Winter

  Blow, Appreciate

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• Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

  Richard Thompson

  Cheating, Littles, Compromise

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• When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

  Richard Thompson

  Fun, Men, Clothes

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• Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

  Bill Mumy

  Artist, Rocks, Two

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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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• 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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• 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 was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

  Rosanne Cash

  Guitar, Three, Mary

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• At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time

  Gregg Allman

  Song, Real, Guitar

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• 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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• 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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• The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Kids, Four, Letters

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• I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

  Kevin Bacon

  Brother, Rocks, Albums

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• Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

  Lester Bangs

  Rocks, Noise, Tone

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• In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

  Travis Barker

  Rocks, Band, Kind

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• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

  Dan Fogelberg

  Girl, Guitar, Dancing

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• Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

  Neal Schon

  Thunder, Closest

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• To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

  Robert Fripp

  Heart, Musical, Bills

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• The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Names, Shapes, Want

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• When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

  David Sanborn

  Play, Nuance, Tone

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• No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Music, Piano, Mystery

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