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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• 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

• 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 kind of just want to get to know people and I have a genuine interest in people that listen to my music. I've just always felt like that. I think it's from the days of playing guitar to a few people and being very conversational and very intimate and I've always wanted to keep that vibe.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Trouble
  • Guitar
  • Fame

• As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Doing
  • Parent

• The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Nature
  • Prayers

• In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Protecting

• Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Crowds
  • Clergy
  • Hierarchical

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

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Guitar
  • Orchestra
  • Monophonic symphony