Plugging In Quotes

• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Work, Failure

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• There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

  John Fogerty

  Player, Guitar, Guy

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• Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

  Michael Chang

  Change, Needs, Too Much

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• You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.

  Michael Vartan

  Jobs, Lucky, Enough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The chemistry was still there. To me, that was the biggest thing: Would the chemistry be there? Can we really go ahead and do this? And it was obvious within the first moment of plugging in the instruments that the magic was still there. It was a fantastic feeling.

  Christine McVie

  Feelings, Magic, Firsts

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• When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

  Beth Orton

  Satisfied, Feels, Make Sense

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking about herself. I would just mute the TV, look over to the computer and start plugging in notes. Then the next morning you go "Wow, I like this". I'd almost forget what I did, and then it would inspire me to go on and do the next thing. That's what I do. Just kind of follow my own little thing.

  Terry Bozzio

  Morning, Talking, Inspire

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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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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• I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

  James Bay

  Guitar, Band, Stuff

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• Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Beautiful, Nice, Guitar

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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