Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Price

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

Chord Overstreet

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

Chick Corea

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

Chad Smith

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

Billy Unger

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

Beth Orton

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

Beth Orton

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

Buddy Guy

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Carlos Santana

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

Alan Watts

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Alan Watts

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

Alan Bennett

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

Alan Bennett

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

Alan Bennett

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

Alan Ayckbourn

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

Alan Alda

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.

Alison Krauss

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

Aleksey Igudesman

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

Randy Bachman

When I was five I had violin lessons.

Tommy Cooper

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

George Eliot

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

John Coltrane

The first violins have the most interesting part.

Louisa May Alcott

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

David Garrett

Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.