Amplifier Quotes

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier. (Dick Dale)
Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly. View quote
Harold Stephen Black
In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. View quote
Michael Schenker
I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself. View quote
Michael Schenker
It's like saying 'Give a man a Les Paul guitar and he becomes Eric Clapton,' you know. It's not true. And give a man an amplifier and a synthesizer, and he doesn't become whoever, you know. He doesn't become us. View quote
Roger Waters
Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. View quote
Ritchie Blackmore
The BB house works as a kind of twat amplifier, you see. Once harnessed within, someone who in normal life would merely strike me as a bit of a git quickly swells in negative stature, eventually coming to symbolise everything I hate about our cruel and godless universe. View quote
Charlie Brooker
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry. View quote
Stanislav Grof
About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it. View quote
Dweezil Zappa
You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community. View quote
Jonathan Tisch
Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier. (Daisy Berkowitz)
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!' View quote
Angus Young
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. View quote
Brian Eno
I like the observation that Forth is an amplifier: a good programmer can write a great program; a bad programmer a terrible one. I feel no need to cater to bad programmers. View quote
Charles H. Moore