Electric Quotes
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I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
Glenn Hughes Brazen Abbot -
I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.
George Clooney
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One thing about the Arena Football League, they know how to generate excitement. They have us opening the season at the same place where our season ended last year. It will be an electric atmosphere, and I, for one, can't wait.
John Moyer Disturbed -
I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
Beck -
In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club -
I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.
Sam Palladio -
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.
Erma Bombeck -
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.
Alistair Cooke -
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.
Andy Rooney -
As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.
Laura Lippman -
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.
Joseph Heller -
It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.
Wendy Carlos
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
Vinod Khosla -
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
Chuck Berry -
The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.
Warren Hern -
For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.
Vinod Khosla -
The '90s period I just miss because it was such a great time and the music was just so electric. Everybody just had to bring their A-game back then because everybody that was, you know, a big influence...they were on the charts. I bring that era with me everywhere I go. I care about every word I sing. I care about every move I make on stage. I care about the fans. I bring that with me to the present time. And then, when you're timeless, you can work in any time.
Brandy -
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
This kid is electric. He overpowered us today. There's no doubt about that. He had everything and threw everything where he wanted to throw it with velocity, with tilt, with sharpness.
Carlos Zambrano -
Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.
Gary Moore -
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
Thomas A. Edison