Ernie Isley Quotes
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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 -
As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
Adam Jones -
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
Natalie Imbruglia -
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
Adam Jones -
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor Swift -
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
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My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.
Oscar Isaac -
The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.
Sam Hunt -
I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
Oscar Isaac -
There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
Tamra Davis -
I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.
Baba Kalyani -
Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
Daisy Berkowitz
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I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.
Hal Sparks -
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 -
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 -
All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.
Taylor Momsen -
The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;
Mark Twain
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In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that's not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
Abraham Cowley -
Most of my work for the past 25 years has been devoted to organizing demonstrations, benefits and campaigns, many of which have had the effect of bringing a policy debate to public focus or moving a political agenda forward. It's become a cliché to say 'think globally and act locally,' but it works.
Peter Yarrow -
I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.
Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers