Winona Ryder Quotes
If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.Winona Ryder
Quotes to Explore
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
Adam Jones -
I'm just a musician and a record producer.
Quincy Jones -
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna -
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
Daniel Ek -
I love writing songs.
Sade Adu -
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
B. B. King
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris DeMent -
I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
Aaron Diehl -
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri -
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 -
I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
Adam Jones
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I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor Swift -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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A lot of these songs were written for our first album. One of them, Shuffle Your Feet, was from before we were a band even. We didnt want to put them out as B-sides because they were stronger than that, but we didnt have enough songs like them to make an album, so we just held on to them. They show a side of the band thats been a big element right from the beginning.
Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -
My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
Dana Perino -
I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?
Lorde -
Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.
Chester Bennington Linkin Park -
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge -
If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.
Winona Ryder