Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Navarro

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Robby Benson

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Donald Fagen

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Ace Frehley

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

Dr. John

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Andy Summers

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

Ray LaMontagne

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

Syd Barrett

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

Roger McGuinn

I don't really collect guitars.

Adam Schoenfeld

Bandwidth is a big growth category, ... It's an important trend that the Internet sector offers some choice and segmentation.

Chris Culos

Now, it's an extremely big name to live up to, but it kind of fits. We had all played in other bands before, and so this was our musical revolution, where we could finally play the music we wanted.

Billie Armstrong

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.

Augusten Burroughs

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

Steve Winwood

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

Craig Ferguson

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

Butch Vig

We're a bunch of geeks. We're not cool at all. We're the geekiest band out there, let me tell you, so it's an honor to do the theme song for such a cool international spy.

S. Walker

We do not view this in any way as treating them as second-class citizens. We don't view our band as second-class citizens just because they're playing before the (football) game,

Fred LeBlanc

A tour bus, a rock band and the clothes on my back. It's real heart-breaking to see the place that you grew up, the place that you've identified with all your life going through such chaos.

Adam Brody

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Amy Poehler

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

Conor Oberst

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

Andy Warhol

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

Amanda Lear

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

Steve Buscemi

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

Stone Gossard

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

Steven Yeun

I'm not much of a horror fan. When it comes to ghost stuff and demon stuff, I can't watch that.

Randy Pausch

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.