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.

Stephen Dorff

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

Steven Price

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

Michael Imperioli

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

Tom Curren

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

Slash

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Kelli O'Hara

When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.

Maria Callas

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

Patrick Stump

Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!

Jonathan Demme

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

Julie Andrews

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

Eric Whitacre

When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

John Michael Higgins

That's how I relax. I love singing with my castmates.

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Michael Gardner

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

Meg Ryan

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

Martin Mull

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

Nick Frost

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

Michael Caine

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Michael Caine

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

Marcus Camby

From the start of the game, we were acting like we won five in a row. We didn't come out with the intensity and attitude needed to win the game.