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- Nov 07, 2020
Acoustic Guitar Quotes
The strings behind the story.
These acoustic guitar quotes come from musicians describing how the instrument shaped their early sound, from favorite keys to loop-pedal experiments. Compare styles in our Electric Guitar quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing with One Direction songs is that you can probably break them all down to an acoustic guitar and vocal.
- Fiddling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when I was 12 or 13, I found the acoustic guitar and got into guitar music ultimately, like Black Motorcycle Club, obviously Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of someone with an acoustic guitar who is a bit woe-is-me. I'd like to think that I'm not one of those. I'm quite a happy person.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
People didn't know I played guitar on all the hit records I had. I've never been in an acoustic guitar magazine and I'd put myself up against anybody.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020