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'm full of dust and guitars.

Syd Barrett

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

Alfred Hitchcock

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Henry Miller

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

Bill Bruford

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Abel Korzeniowski

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

Roger Williams

Only my loyal Steinway piano endures. Be it beaten or caressed, its gorgeous tone remains.

Abbie Cornish

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Cy Coleman

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

Dave Matthews

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

David Bowie

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

Rogers Johns

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Landon Donovan

The good thing is it's over and it's not like that's going to have ramifications on our season. If anything it will help us. You don't play in games of that intensity and atmosphere but a couple of times a year.

Steve Gregory

The atmosphere that it brings, I really like it a lot,

Lucian Freud

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

Michael King

It's a great building. When I walked through the door, I knew that was where it was going to be. You can serve food in any building, but it's atmosphere also.

Rickey Henderson

It's a great atmosphere for ballplayers. The league, to me, is taking care of the young players the right way. The biggest thing is getting better and better every year. Then you draw more players.

Brad Haddin

It's a great atmosphere and I think you've got to make the conditions a little bit better ... a few little touches would have made for a better game.

Michael Ballack

It's a decisive game for our self confidence and for the atmosphere in the country. It's essential that we go into our World Cup preparations experiencing success and not having everyone questioning our abilities.