Electric Guitar Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Guitar, My Favorite, Electric

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• I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.

  Kevin McKidd

  Son, Guitar, Play

  "Kevin McKidd: 'For my role in Rome I had to wear a little skirt - my wife liked that...'". www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.

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• Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?

  Lisa Loeb

  Sports, Guitar, Shoes

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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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• If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.

  Linda Perhacs

  Guitar, Use, Pieces

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2014.

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• You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

  Steve Vai

  Play, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustics

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

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• Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

  Beck

  Technology, Guitar, Acoustics

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons... My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

  Simon Cowell

  Teacher, Guitar, Giving

  "This Briton's got talent". Interview with David Walliams, www.independent.co.uk. March 23, 2012.

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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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• As a guitarist and a lot of the times as a singer, I don't feel that comfortable and you really feel that when there's not an electric guitar or a nice beat to back it up. But, I enjoy challenges as a rule. I have always felt that what doesn't kill you, will make you stronger. I have learned to love with the rawness a little bit more and I know what I need to work on a little bit more as the tour goes on.

  Stephen Kellogg

  Nice, Guitar, Challenges

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

  Erin McKeown

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples are used, the way the electric guitar is used. I'm thinking of things that are particular to this era. But I don't always feel particularly close to the music of my peers. I often feel that I have more in common with writers and visual artists. I try to connect to people in an emotional kind of way.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Artist, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.

  Dean Wareham

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

  Source: therumpus.net

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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, Acoustics

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

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• Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

  Gary Moore

  Guitar, Years, Acoustics

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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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• My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

  Sam Palladio

  Cousin, Guitar, My Birthday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

  Dave Barry

  Guitar, Tables, Picnics

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.12, Ballantine Books

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