Amplifiers Quotes

• Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Play, Elephants, Trying

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• I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.

  John Mayer

  Summer, Guitar, Media

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• Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

  Bob Seger

  Lying, Echoes, Rock And Roll

  Bob Seger, The Silver Bullet Band (2012). “Bob Seger - Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets (Songbook)”, p.45, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

  Dick Dale

  Father, Player, Guitar

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• Faith is the amplifier that will allow the universe to hear and resonate with your music.

  Ruben Papian

  Universe

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.22

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• These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This unique property of psychedelics makes it possible to study psychological undercurrents that govern our experiences and behaviors to a depth that cannot be matched by any other methods and tools available in modern mainstream science. In emotional and psychosomatic disorders, for positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

  Stanislav Grof

  Unique, Emotional, Personality

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• Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

  Buddy Guy

  Guitar, Perfect, Car

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• I'd got accepted to the seminary in Wisconsin, and I was gonna become a priest, but the last second I thought, 'I'll just go to public school.' I had just gotten a new amplifier in my bedroom, and I didn't think I was allowed to take it with me.

  Jack White

  School, Thinking, Lasts

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• A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, People, Silence

  Robert Orben (2012). “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches”, p.312, Doubleday

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• I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

  Dick Dale

  Father, Guru, Mets

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• Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

  Harold Stephen Black

  Negative, Feedback, Performances

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• The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful.

  Ben Weinman

  Powerful, Play, Monsters

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• Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.

  Bruno Mars

  Player, Guitar, Talking

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• A blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places ... keep your head on and your ears open.

  Billy Gibbons

  Music, Play, Sound

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• Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Made, Uncomfortable, Audience

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• The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

  Brian Eno

  Guitar, Trying, Overcoming

  "The revenge of the intuitive" by Brian Eno, www.wired.com. January 1, 1999.

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• I don't plan [my recordings], I really don't. It's so spontaneous I wish all rock lovers and rock journalist could witness a Ted Nugent recording session. It is so primal, it's like idiot kids in the garage with their first loud amplifiers, its intoxicating, it is irreverent, it is uninhibited.

  Ted Nugent

  Kids, Rocks, Wish

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• Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier.

  Kathy Sierra

  Hate

  "Why the Trolls Will Always Win" by Kathy Sierra, www.wired.com. October 08, 2014.

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• The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Powerful, Voice

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.168, Anchor

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• So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Empty, Said

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.168, Anchor

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• People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be.

  Lee Child

  Believe, Army, Garden

  Lee Child (2006). “Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the supplying of man's commercial and industrial needs... The electronic amplifier tube now underlies the whole art of communications, and this in turn is at least in part what has made possible its application to a dozen other arts. It was a great day for both science and industry when they became wedded through the development of the electronic amplifier tube.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Art, Communication, Night

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• Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Running, Couple, Party

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• I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I dont just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I dont hear it then I cant feed myself.

  Michael Schenker

  Order, Play, Feelings

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• The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through a microphone, amplifiers, transmission lines, radio transmitter, receiving set, and, finally, the loud speaker apparatus itself.

  Raymond Scott

  Mind, Receiving, Sound

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

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