Acoustics Quotes - Page 7

• People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.

  Craig Finn

  Heart, Thinking, Guitar

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

  Ellie Goulding

  Brother, Guitar, Passionate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

  Eric Clapton

  Singing, Enjoy, Settings

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• Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.

  Joseph Roth

  Lying, Communication, Expression

  Joseph Roth (2002). “What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

  Jim Croce

  Guitar, Simplicity, Age

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• I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

  Daniel Ek

  Guitar, Really Cool, Headphones

  "Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Talks Royalties, Social and The Future". Interview with Eliot Van Buskirk, evolver.fm. February 10, 2012.

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• I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments... I'm looking for instruments that have vocal sounds, forgotten instruments like the guimbri... The first and second albums were about the voice, what came before. This album is about introducing those sounds into modern, Western life.

  Marie Daulne

  Voice, Way, Firsts

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• I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

  Jane Siberry

  Rocks, Watches, Acoustic Music

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• So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.

  Lights

  Needs, Picks

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• Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Wind, Quality, Experts

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• One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing.

  Rory Gallagher

  Hate, Guitar, Play

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• Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Writing, Dark, Men

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Europe, Two, House

  "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'". interview with Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

  Dan Auerbach

  Dog, Brother, Guitar

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• I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.

  Michael Gungor

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.

  Jonathan Demme

  Guitar, Choices, Passionate

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.

  Dave Mustaine

  Sex, Mean, Guitar

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• If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down the strings of his acoustic guitar. ...And we were convinced that this was the definitive illustration of what we both loved about music; we loved hearing the INSIDE of a song.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Song, Guitar, Illustration

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• I've always toured solo acoustic.

  Jewel

  Solo

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• I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

  Katy Perry

  Records, Wanted

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

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• The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Play, Should

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

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• (memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

  Julio Cortazar

  Memories, Echoes, Expectations

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• Since Pawlow [Pavlov] and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it no longer seems strange to us that what the philosopher terms an 'idea' is a process which can cause chemical changes in the body.

  Jacques Loeb

  Dog, Mean, Ideas

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• Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted out in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can't see one.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Believe, Heart, Boys

  "Ptolemy's Gate". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September, 2005.

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• I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Night, Men, Air

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