Acoustics Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

  Louise Jameson

  Thinking, Space, Quirky

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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 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, Finesse, Instruments

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• I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

  Billy Gardell

  Mean, Perfect, Theater

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• You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.

  Daphne Oram

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.

  Helen Slater

  Courage, Thinking, May

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

  Elliott Smith

  Depressing, Guitar, Play

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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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• 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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• I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

  Eric Clapton

  Hurt, Mean, Guitar

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• I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Fans, Singers, Stuff

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• The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing "My Happy Ending" a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional when I would play it.

  Avril Lavigne

  Song, Emotional, Interesting

  "Talking to Avril Lavigne". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. February 25, 2008.

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• I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

  Corey Taylor

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Frustration, Thinking, Levels

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• I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Play, Purple, Style

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• Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

  Billy Gibbons

  Games, Play, Water

  "David Lynch and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons dream about machines" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2011.

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• When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Country, Guitar, Play

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• I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, Trying, Different

  "Find Out What Influences Katy Perry's Cute Style!". Interview with Seventeen magazine, www.seventeen.com. February 5, 2009.

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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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• In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

  Arthur Koestler

  Two, Tangled, Coincidence In Life

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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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