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.

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.

The Edge

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

Michelle Branch

When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it's my guitar because, really, it's what takes up all my time.

Michael Storm

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Matt Tong

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

Pat Metheny

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

Pat Metheny

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles

Bridget Hall

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Conor Oberst

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

William Wordsworth

Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.

Vivian Campbell

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

Wayne Knight

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

Henry Rollins

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Henry Rollins

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

Liberty Ross

Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.

Gary Clark, Jr.

I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.