Harry Chapin Quotes

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

Harry Chapin

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• Monophonic symphony

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• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Age
  • Guitar

• My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Alone
  • Play
  • Player

• I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself.

  

  Washed Out
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Guitar

• Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Good
  • Song
  • Guitar

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Way
  • Player
  • Guitar

• I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Played

• When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Time
  • Country
  • Want

• It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • School
  • High
  • Guitar

• A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Time
  • You
  • Guitar

• I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Wanted
  • Guitar
  • Learned

• Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Play
  • Best
  • Guitar

• There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • May
  • Guitar
  • Feedback

• I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Remember
  • Thought
  • Guitar

• It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • May
  • Guitar

• When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Guitar
  • Camera
  • Vintage

• My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Up
  • Guitar
  • Give

• I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Money
  • Team
  • Relationship

• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Yourself

• We can see our liberties vanishing here in the United States... A little bit here and a little piece there... We can see it, we can feel it, and we can hear it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • See
  • United States
  • Hear

• Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Fashion
  • Show
  • Runway

• With the country moving toward inclusion, the leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have instead sent a message to young people that only some of them are valued. They've chosen to teach division and intolerance.

  

  Chad Griffin
  • Country
  • Leader
  • Teach

• The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Guitar
  • Orchestra
  • Monophonic symphony