Acoustic Quotes

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. (Elliott Smith)
Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it's more difficult. View quote
Dave Mustaine
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. View quote
Richard Thompson
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. View quote
Bill Bruford
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. View quote
Giorgio Moroder
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music. View quote
Graham Nash
Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing. View quote
Neal Schon
There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer. View quote
Rick Derringer
I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars. View quote
Rosanne Cash
Music is everything. God himself is nothing more than an acoustic hallucination. (Emil Cioran)
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar. View quote
Dan Fogelberg
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally. View quote
Travis Barker
I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band. View quote
James Bay
The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record. View quote
Serj Tankian
When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it. View quote
Richard Thompson
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise. View quote
Richard Thompson
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows. (Bob Mould)
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. View quote
Bela Fleck
In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well. View quote
Colin Hay
When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass. View quote
David Sanborn
That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best. View quote
Dierks Bentley