Cory Arcangel Quotes
I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.Cory Arcangel
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
Harold Urey -
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Gary Oldman -
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 -
I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
Oscar Isaac -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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
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When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.
Valerie June -
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've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
Adam Jones -
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 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 -
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
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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 -
I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.
Anna Ternheim -
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
George Bernard Shaw -
When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.
Emily Yoffe -
I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
Rachael Taylor -
I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.
Cory Arcangel