Top 1200 Electric Guitar Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

As long as Wanxiang exists, we will pursue our dream to make electric cars, whatever the obstacles.

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And I don't collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman's guitar and Johnny Cash's guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn't resist.

Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Thanks to policies mandating clean energy development, California's electric grid is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world.

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.

The groups who spend the most on lobbying lawmakers in Washington are well-known: ExxonMobil, Boeing, AT&T, General Electric.

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - this is a no-brainer.' Let's define the sound of the future.

He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

We believe that electric vehicles can transform transportation completely in India by enabling lower cost of operation and ownership.

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it's counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me.

The guitar, by its very nature, the nature of its sound, by the soft nuance of its powerful and ancient voice, by the magic of the tone, goes directly to the part of oneself where love is felt. When I hear the sound of the guitar, it goes to some part inside of me that opens the door that holds feelings of love and everything that is beautiful which lives inside of me.

It grabs me, but not as much as it grabs some of the other people that rave about them. With the Black Keys, I'm missing crescendos with the sax, keyboard or guitar solo. It never comes to me. All my favorite music is rife with crescendo and I'm not hearing enough with them. If you can get the Black Keys to hear this, tell them I offer my crescendo guitar anytime they desire it.

I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think regular touring has forced me to play the guitar more than anything else, which is why I'm probably most confident playing that. And whist I'd be lost if I couldn't play it too, I dislike the totemic worship of the thing... magazines, collectors, and so on. I enjoy struggling with instruments I can't really play.

I performed at Live Aid in front of a worldwide TV audience of 1.9 billion but I wasn't nervous - the atmosphere was electric.

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles.

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

The thing I love about electric vehicles is not stopping in gas stations. We're so accustomed to that... Now I'm in control of when I refuel.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.

Body Electric... It is the first song from my new short film called #? Tropico that is coming out in the end of the month.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an inventor, in a sense - as well as being great artist.

It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.

I still only play by ear. I don't have any training. But the piano actually makes more sense to me than guitar, even though I play more guitar now. And then, it wasn't till later that I started really writing songs. Writing songs was an outlet that I needed, so I became obsessed with it. It allowed me to express a bunch of stuff that had been piling up.

My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.

The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.

I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan

In the 21st century, we must rethink broadband as a basic utility alongside gas, electric, and water.

So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.