Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.
Quotes to Explore
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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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.
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.
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As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.
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I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.
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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.
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Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.
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My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.
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Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.
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I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
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A lot of the people that I play with are electronic-based, so there isn't a direct physical analogue between what they're doing and the sound you're hearing.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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I think people realize now that integration and sharing information is not something that's nice to think about. It's not a luxury, it's a must, i think everybody gets that – in the national security and law enforcement side – but that doesn't mean it's easy to do.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.
