Top 1200 Electric Guitar Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

Instead of buying a guitar for $2,000 or $2,500 - I'm not sure how much these are going for - but it's maybe $300 or something like that. It's more for beginners and stuff like that. Obviously it's not hitting the pros. And you can't get the Piezo pickup and the color-changing paint and the inlays and all the fancy things that my signature guitars offer, but you can get the general feel of the guitar - and the body style. It's cool.

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message

If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

On stage I have to be comfortable because I play guitar so I can't wear too much jewellery, it knocks against the guitar and makes loud noises. I had this big gold eagle necklace which I love but I kept whacking myself in the face with it so had to stop wearing it. I wear things that I can sweat in, basically... it gets really hot on stage.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

I'm a part of a new generation of drivers that will only drive electric.

I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.'

A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

I have this Martin electric/acoustic that's made of black formica. Really cool.

Stop all your eyes at this time Right now, I'm electric heart

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

I was chubby in high school. I used to go to my information technology class, and I would type really fast to get the lesson done quick because the teacher had a little acoustic guitar, and there was a girl I had a crush on in the class. I would take the guitar and pretend to be some great singer-songwriter, serenade her with joke songs.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.

The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny.

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.

I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things.

Rock 'n' roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking on the Stratocaster and a Les Paul. It wasn't the country guys and it wasn't the white guys; it was the Blues guys. That's where the real fire is in all of this rock and roll music.

I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock & roll bands. In college I picked up a guitar and became obsessed with practicing which led to playing guitar in indie rock bands in the mid 90's. Which led me to Los Angeles.

I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today?

I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just to try to mimic the dynamic [of the drums]. Drums seemed a lot more expressive. [I was] Trying to emulate the feeling of playing the drums on the guitar - I guess that's why I played it so loud.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too easy:) It is a responsibility made less easy by people I work with encouraging me to play guitar on their record...A soon as I start playing guitar on someone's record it inevitably starts to sound like me...not always a good thing.

No one realized that the pumps that delivered fuel to the emergency generators were electric.

My record's all electric, and that's why I call it 'garage country.'

I want to reignite the interest in hydro-electric investments.

Your electric bills will go down.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.

The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.

Yeah. I started using them [SDD-3000s] shortly after first working with Edge on The Unforgettable Fire. Basically, I stole his sound. It wasn't a complicated rig: just a guitar he liked through a Korg SDD-3000 digital delay into a Vox. Three components, mono - that's it. The great thing about the Korgs is its three-position level switch, which lets you hit the amp with about 10 extra dB. It's more overdriven than if you just plugged the guitar straight into the amp, even when it's on bypass. But a lot of the guitar sounds on Achtung Baby were recorded through a Korg A3 effects processor.

Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.

I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.