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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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FLUME I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to ...
KEVIN MCKIDD [He] is one of those virtuoso guitar players. Sometimes I equate him to the flamenco Jimi Hendrix. Y...
WALLY INGRAM As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the dru...
DARON MALAKIAN
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You... STEVE VAI
The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music. KEVIN GATES When you pick up an acoustic guitar,
CLINT BLACK In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I ...
TOMMY RAMONE
I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. ... DAN HICKS An electric guitar is a gay version of an electric bass.
ELISA BERENGUEL He really wanted to buy an electric guitar. But they're expensive, so he said, 'Hey, let's make one....
TOMO MILICEVIC
As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electri... JONATHAN DEMME
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar,... DANIEL EK
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song... COREY TAYLOR In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them per...
TAYLOR HAWKINS Conventional bands with acoustic drums and guitar amps don't need much more than vocals in the floor...
CLIFF TUNE
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean,... JOHNNY WINTER I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot ...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.
DAVE PIRNER For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like...
MARC ALMOND For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I ...
MARC ALMOND
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... IAN ANDERSON
You spend days getting the right drum sound. And vocals take a long time-you can't just do one take ... CHRISTINE MCVIE
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right;... JOHNNY WINTER I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with...
JAMES BAY Piano feels soft. Violins and all different string instruments feel soft. Guitar, even electric guit...
TY DOLLA SIGN I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a ...
RONNIE MONTROSE I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm jus...
PHILLIP PHILLIPS It was originally billed as acoustic but I think we'll do it as a full band, with somebody playing a...
ADAM SCHLESINGER
If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. CHRISTOPHER CROSS Sound production by black drum serves as proxy for spawning. We want to see if it is possible to fin...
JIM LOCASCIO The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
ANDY SUMMERS
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes... MANUEL PUIG I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric g...
EVAN RACHEL WOOD It hasn't got the scuzzy rock of the Vaselines, or the more refined scuzzy rock of Eugenius. It come...
EUGENE KELLY
I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like. ADRIAN BELEW I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's wh...
TROMBONE SHORTY
I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over... BABYFACE
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same col... PENN JILLETTE
The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise an... TOMMY LEE Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can co...
BERNARD SUMNER From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of...
DANNY BROWN
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic m... GRAHAM NASH
Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had be... QUINCY JONES As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadi...
MATT BELLAMY We had about 30 songs. I picked some I thought my mom would really like and some I liked. We went in...
ALAN JACKSON
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They real... JACK BLACK
Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won’... VIKRMN
The transformation that happens when a young artist goes on the road - you put the acoustic guitar d... DIERKS BENTLEY Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acous...
TAYLOR MOMSEN I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE
An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified. CHRIS CORNELL Personally, I kind of stumbled into it, many moons ago. I wanted to play in a rock band, but I could...
ALAN REID
He's been working on his electric guitar since we've been off the road, ... He's always been a great... KEITH RICHARDS
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite. ACE FREHLEY
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoust... GRAHAM NASH
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect ... ALEX KAPRANOS I was an active little kid and I always listened to exciting music. My dad was into Hendrix. I was i...
JOSH MORGAN
What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find tha... ELI BROAD
Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it... DIERKS BENTLEY
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that w... GREGG ALLMAN
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... TOM PETTY
I'm trying to make music that I like, and I love hip-hop. At the same time, I love guitar. I lov... POST MALONE
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They ... JACK BLACK I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like J...
BUZZ OSBORNE I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril...
GABRIELLE APLIN
Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying differ... MARTIN GARRIX
He's always been a good, smooth acoustic player, but the electric seemed like an untamed beast for h... KEITH RICHARDS
Kirk Hammett, lead guitar and attempted vocals KIRK HAMMETT What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by ho...
MIKE WHITE I've tried electric drum pads, but I hate them. I even had a huge, double-bass electronic kit in my ...
ERIC CARR If you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an aco...
MARK KNOPFLER I know how a guitar player likes a guitar to feel and to sound. Having the right tone is everything.
DON MEYERS
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar. DAN FOGELBERG A first for Consumption, I think, We're playing stripped-down acoustic, which is how our songs start...
GINA TURNER
When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hen... CHRIS CORNELL
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that w... GREGG ALLMAN The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home.
BEN OAK
When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, tranc...
FLUME
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him mo... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano. DELTA GOODREM
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Borderin... RICHARD THOMPSON
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty muc...
JON ANDERSON God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through dif...
JENNIFER SODINI
If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. ELLIOTT SMITH
My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an ... TODD RUNDGREN Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always goin...
DAN AUERBACH The last record was what I would sound like if I played in a rock band - and I don?t. So I wanted to...
GLEN PHILLIPS
John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool,... HALSTON SAGE Take a chance of your life, you're risking nothing in this planet.
NAZIM AMBALATH
In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in h... STEVE ALBINI You're encouraged when you get older to get mellow, get reflective, get laid back. I don't understan...
STEVE WYNN My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I ...
OSCAR ISAAC
To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you... T. BOONE PICKENS We have several entertainers planned for the evening. One is a puppeteer, but his act is a secret. T...
DON SIPPEL I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hu...
ROBIN ZANDER
I wonder if I could make an electric bass. LEO FENDER
