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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• It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Sound, Corny, Instruments

  FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 29, 2013

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• I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Guitar, California, Southern

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• Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

  Alan Parsons

  Echoes, Magic, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Labels, Records, Rooms

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• Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

  Roman Jakobson

  Sound, Mystery, Phonetics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  Randy Bachman

  Son, Rocks, Community

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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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• I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

  Ace Frehley

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Versions

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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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• 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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• Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

  Michael McKean

  Song, Fun, Sight

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• Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Two, Drawing, Insecurity

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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, Tempo

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• I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.

  Thia Megia

  Wall, Mean, Voice

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