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To speak your Heart outnothing can be better than Night and Acoustic guitar !! -- Dinakar Phillip
I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life. -- Kip Winger
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve. -- Roman Jakobson
I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing. -- Dan Hicks
If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. -- Elliott Smith
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar. -- Dan Fogelberg
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit. -- Robert Fripp
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. -- Giorgio Moroder
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. -- Richard Thompson
I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band. -- James Bay
I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music. -- Pat Metheny
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music. -- Graham Nash
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
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
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
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
When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song. -- Martin Gore
My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do. My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. -- Louis Tomlinson
It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters. -- Helen Slater
Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar. -- Miles Teller
The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional. -- Avril Lavigne
I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone with the song. And I get to hear every little nuance; if my instrument does something that I wasn't expecting, I get to chase that. Chase that down a little bit. -- Bob Weir
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet. -- Corey Taylor
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it. -- Eugene Chadbourne
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.' -- Kirk Hammett
The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record. -- Serj Tankian
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
I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for. -- Eddie Van Halen
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes. -- Pete Townshend
I've always toured solo acoustic. -- Jewel
I've always been fond of acoustic music. -- Ian Anderson
So acoustic, I don't even need a pick. -- Lights
Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me. -- Kenny Loggins
What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano. -- Delta Goodrem
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite. -- Ace Frehley
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space. -- Marshall McLuhan
I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record. -- Katy Perry
Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing. -- Neal Schon
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues -- Johnny Winter
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. -- Robyn Hitchcock
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues. -- Johnny Winter
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one. -- Eric Clapton
When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone. -- Dan Auerbach
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. -- Arthur Koestler
I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice. -- Damien Dempsey
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise. -- Richard Thompson
An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified. -- Chris Cornell
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. -- Roman Jakobson
My sound is super hybrid; the acoustic sounds are there and the electronic sounds are there. -- Guillermo E. Brown
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB. -- John Oates
One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces. -- Gavin Bryars
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar. -- Kaki King
A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre. -- Brandon Jones
Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage. -- Dave Grohl
I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only. -- Dave Matthews
I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show. -- Chris Cornell
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. -- Bill Bruford
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. -- John Oates
Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me. -- Gary Moore
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual. -- Marshall McLuhan
I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. -- Kevin Bacon
Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic. -- Emily Haines
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. -- Julio Cortazar
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. -- Kenneth R. Miller
If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. -- Christopher Cross
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. -- Dan Fogelberg
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. -- Beck
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it -- Dan Fogelberg
I might do a solo album, maybe do covers, or do an acoustic thing. No Sex Pistols tours, nothing! -- Steve Jones
I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor. -- Buzz Osborne
I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent. -- Tim Hudson
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee. -- Robyn Hitchcock
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally. -- Travis Barker
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows. -- Bob Mould
If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon. -- King Khan
I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not. -- Phillip Phillips
Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert. -- Stephen Ambrose
Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes! -- Alan Parsons
I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world. -- Paul Reed Smith
I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor. -- Jason Reeves
To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms. -- Marshall McLuhan
A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that. -- Bill Orcutt
Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music. -- Van Morrison
That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best. -- Dierks Bentley
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
John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music. -- Halston Sage
I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal. -- Shook
An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really. -- Patrick Wolf
I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars -- Rosanne Cash
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write. -- Lou Doillon
Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but itâ??s more difficult. -- Dave Mustaine
Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers. -- Jimmy Griffin
I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way. -- Britt Daniel
Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks. -- Steve Vai
Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit. -- Andy Summers
I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic. -- Jason Mraz
Kleos is sometimes translated as "acoustic renown" the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following. -- Rebecca Goldstein
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
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. -- Bela Fleck
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis. -- Andy Gibb
To me, there's never been a difference between electronic and acoustic. I've always had this idea that electricity is another element like wind or fire or water. -- Patrick Wolf
The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole. -- Dana Gould
My head is full of shifting patterns and polyrhythmic stuff; but I want to use all acoustic instruments and create this kind of tapestry of interlocking lulling parts. -- Andrew Bird
Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena. -- Edward Miner Gallaudet
I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of. -- Camila Cabello
I'd love to do a live record, I'd love to do an acoustic record, I'm already thinking about what I may want to do with the next studio record. -- Cody Johnson
My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic. -- Dave Grohl
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music. -- Lee Ritenour
I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself. -- Jeff Tweedy
I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything. -- Cass McCombs
Utilizing a unique acoustic blend never heard previously, the Aaron Oâ??Rourke Trio has made a fine debut recording that is sure to please old and new grass fans alike. -- David Grisman
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
I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere. -- Casey Spooner
Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords. -- Neil Diamond
I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much. -- Pauline Oliveros
For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records. -- Dave Grohl
I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my "rock playing", I might be a world class shredder. -- Jill Sobule
There's something about approaching 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

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