Top 1200 Electric Guitar Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

If there's anything Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo has taught me, it's that breakdancing is the key to financial solvency.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

The world is moving towards renewable green energy, and electric transportation is a big part of that.

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

The Indian audience is so passionate, they know all the tunes and love to party. The atmosphere is always electric.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.

I've sold my Mercedes and I'll be getting something electric. I work out of a thatch shed on the roof.

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

Branding in electric mobility is critical, but I think what Tesla has also demonstrated is that you can build new brands.

I've never been renowned for electric pace. It doesn't seem to have held me back.

I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.

The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire.

Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush.

I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.

I was a nervous child, I was a bedwetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself.

The Peruvian Amazon was amazing. We cooked alligator and I got stung by an electric eel.

Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

God forbid I do the 'Electric Slide' at a wedding or something. People would lose their minds.

There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.

America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.

Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool.

When I got into high school, clarinet was not really in fashion. Everybody had electric bands.

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

Any time you can play in front of home fans and the electric crowds in the U.S., it's always a blast.

Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.

My favourite hangouts are the Mexican restaurant Crazy Homies and the Electric Cinema, both in Notting Hill.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that's the fun part of learning guitar

Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that (vocalizing) sound, and with the bass and the lead guitar, there it was. Bare and stark, that song was when it was released. And I heard it on the radio and I really didn't like it, and I called Sam Phillips and asked him please not to send out any more records of that song.

For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that is about 6 to 8 inches deep.' Your arm reaches over, and you start to strum, and then all of a sudden you get a charley horse in your back. The older you get, the greater the charley horse.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.

Nuclear plants are part of the backbone of our electric grid. They are reliable, they are clean.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

I have to look after my life, my kids, their school, their doctor, my house, my phone and electric bills.

My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

A reliable electric grid is absolutely necessary to provide drinking water. You have to have the electricity.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.