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.

David Lynch

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

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.

Andy Summers

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

Andrew Wyatt

There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on the guitar!

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Billy Corgan

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

Brad Williams

Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.

Brian McDermott

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

Brian Tracy

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.

Rene Redzepi

I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.

Vanilla Ice

Act smarter than you are and always know where your exit is in case you get into too much trouble.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Betsey Johnson

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

H. Allen Smith

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

Jean de La Fontaine

Un auteur ga" te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.