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I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor. — Buzz Osborne

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. — Elliott Smith

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar. — Kaki King

I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show. — Chris Cornell

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best. — Dierks Bentley

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world. — Paul Reed Smith

Almost pedantically, she added: They're not really bombs
they're acoustic provocations. — J.G. Ballard

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano. — Delta Goodrem

'Funny' is really cool live. You break it down into an acoustic set, and sometimes I'll do that one unplugged and off the mic, depending on the venue. — Tori Kelly

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing. — Neal Schon

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself. — Jeff Tweedy

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic. — Emily Haines

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage. — Dave Grohl

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not. — Phillip Phillips

Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it's more difficult. — Dave Mustaine

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces. — Gavin Bryars

Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert. — Stephen Ambrose

Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space. — Marshall McLuhan

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee. — Robyn Hitchcock

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music. — Graham Nash

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. — Richard Thompson

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. — Bill Bruford

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. — John Oates

I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal. — Shook

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite. — Ace Frehley

How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows. — Bob Mould

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot. — Oscar Isaac

John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music. — Halston Sage

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. — Christopher Cross

I've always been fond of acoustic music. — Ian Anderson

Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me. — Kenny Loggins

So acoustic, I don't even need a pick. — Lights

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit. — Robert Fripp

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.
— Julio Cortazar

we did an acoustic set at CBGB on October 30, 1987, where we debuted "Patience. — Duff McKagan

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic. — Chord Overstreet

A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre. — Brandon Jones

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only. — Dave Matthews

I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me. — Kathleen Edwards

I've always toured solo acoustic. — Jewel

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. — Roman Jakobson

Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit. — Andy Summers

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way. — Britt Daniel

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar. — Dan Fogelberg

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. — Kevin Bacon

The thing with One Direction songs is that you can probably break them all down to an acoustic guitar and vocal. — Jamie Lawson

To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms. — Marshall McLuhan

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. — Giorgio Moroder

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write. — Lou Doillon

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent. — Tim Hudson

The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole. — Dana Gould

If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon. — King Khan

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes! — Alan Parsons

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player. — David Crosby

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified. — Chris Cornell

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. — Cass McCombs

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really. — Patrick Wolf

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor. — Jason Reeves

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. — Arthur Koestler

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally. — Travis Barker

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues. — Johnny Winter

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars. — Rosanne Cash

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic. — Dan Hicks

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record. — Katy Perry

I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice. — Damien Dempsey

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar. — Dave Pirner

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. — Bela Fleck

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual. — Marshall McLuhan

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band. — James Bay

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise. — Richard Thompson

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. — Robyn Hitchcock

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

I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic. — Jason Mraz

People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul. — Craig Finn

I might do a solo album, maybe do covers, or do an acoustic thing. No Sex Pistols tours, nothing! — Steve Jones

A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that. — Bill Orcutt

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. — Kenneth R. Miller

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one. — Eric Clapton

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me. — Gary Moore

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. — Dan Fogelberg