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The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. -- Rem Koolhaas
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
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues -- Johnny Winter
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. -- Roman Jakobson
Acoustics reverberate inside of Lucy Anna, bouncing off her walls and slamming against her bars. Harmonic prison. -- Kelby Losack
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. -- Bill Bruford
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
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. -- Richard Thompson
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee. -- Robyn Hitchcock
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows. -- Bob Mould
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 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
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up. -- Graham Coxon
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo. -- Jules Shear
Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar. -- Paul Simon
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together. -- Daniel Smith
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers. -- Johnny Winter
Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now. -- Bill Mumy
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good. -- Dweezil Zappa
When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it. -- Richard Thompson
I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals. -- Lisa Loeb
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. -- Marc Almond
When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass. -- David Sanborn
I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby. -- Naima Adedapo
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. -- Roman Jakobson
I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant. -- Louise Jameson
I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot. -- Bill Mumy
I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one. -- Billy Gardell
I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you. -- Thia Megia
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all. -- Moshe Safdie
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep. -- Jeffrey Tate
I love playing the Hard Rocks; they've got a great stage, great lighting, great sound, and not so humongous; its more intimate, so we love playing theaters and clubs where the audience has a really good chance to see and hear the group and where the acoustics are good. I like it when we can hear what we're doing. -- Mike Love
The acoustics seem to get louder -- Hugh Johns
The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies. -- Fernando Perez
We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific. -- Libba Bray
In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action. -- Anais Nin

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