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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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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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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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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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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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.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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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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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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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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Guitar is something that had always been around, when I was growing up playing drums my brother was a guitar player so there was always guitars lying around.
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Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.
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Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
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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.
