Acoustics Quotes - Page 5

• I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.

  Violante Placido

  Song, Crazy, Mistake

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

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• Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to make field recordings of ice to create a symphony - acoustic portraits of ice.

  DJ Spooky

  Ice, Symphony, Portraits

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I'm gonna design my own fleet of trailers. No! I'm gonna record an album like Jennifer Lopez. It'll be an acoustic version of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Then maybe I'll design a line of clothes like Puff Daddy, but all in synthetic fur.

  Brad Pitt

  Sunshine, Clothes, Daddy

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• I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

  Cass McCombs

  Rap, Guitar, Long

  "Cass McCombs: Cagey singer-songwriter coughs up a few words". Interview with Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. November 22, 2007.

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• I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

  Lou Doillon

  Writing, Guitar, Fingers

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• I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

  Gloria Estefan

  Kids, Two, Guitar

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.

  Shania Twain

  Song, Different, Inspired

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

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• I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

  Bob Dylan

  Play, Rocks, Color

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• As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are really acoustic writers and so for them the secret revision is sound. Other people may revise in terms of the way a paragraph feels. There's a million ways to do it.

  George Saunders

  Writing, People, Secret

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

  Van Morrison

  Country, Elements, Western Music

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• Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me.

  Kenny Loggins

  Thumbs Up, Thumbs, Bigs

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• With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

  Richard Ayoade

  Sound, Variables, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Beer, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.312, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I thought that I would just kind of learn the ropes of songwriting there - like how to do acoustic, country-esque songs, which I like because there's so much story in them.

  Katy Perry

  Country, Song, People

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

  Geoff Downes

  Hands, Piano, Keyboards

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

  Tim Hudson

  Thinking, Guitar, Practice

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• I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

  Tom Rush

  Work Out, Awful, Six

  "Tom Rush Interview: Celebrating 50 Years of Storytelling and Music". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. November 26, 2012.

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• I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.

  Jason Mraz

  Artist, Careers, Records

  "Yes! Jason Mraz returns to his 'coffeehouse performer' roots". Interview with Mike Nunez, www.floridatoday.com. February 11, 2015.

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• That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.

  Alan Powell

  People, Challenges, Might

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Guitar, Back In The Day

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

  Dave Matthews

  Guitar, Sticks, Electric

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• When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.

  Brendon Urie

  Running, Song, Baby

  Source: villaparkiliad.com

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• You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.

  Brian Eno

  Differences, Guitar, Play

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

  John Oates

  Guitar, Style, Synthesis

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• The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.

  Dana Gould

  Player, Guitar, Sound

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Oct 13, 2012

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