Quotes about american-music
american-musician send
You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone. Brandy Norwood
american-musician forces fortunate
We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless. Brandon Boyd
american-musician south
It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart. Guy Clark
american-musician coming good knowledge process sounds stuff works
Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.
american-musician chris fiddle good integral marvelous studio turns
Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.
american-musician form purest string
All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.
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Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.
american-musician itch time winds wood
But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.
american-musician blew fiddle mentioned played violin
It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
american-musician change die either evolution guessing human natural rich second whatever
Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.
american-musician century direct early orleans piece turn zombies
I'm also going to direct this movie. It's a turn of the century piece called Ge ROUGE. It's got zombies with some early New Orleans voodoo. Glenn Danzig
american-musician concerts days goes road seventy
I'm always on tour, so that's something that goes on that's pretty constant. Seventy to 80 concerts a year. I'm on the road about 160 days a year. Judy Collins
american-musician cool looking stuff supposed ya
I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know? Josh Homme
american-musician front people shows
We used to go and play shows in the south in front of two people and now every show we did was just great. The warm-ups, most of those weren't even advertised and most of them were sold out. I don't know what's going on, it's just so much different than it used to be. Jon Crosby
american-musician funny love people
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life. Jimi Hendrix
american-musician besides chorus clarinet flute orchestra played school
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that. Bobby McFerrin
american-musician illiterate learning prodigy since
I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter. Bobby Sherman
american-musician york
Yes, I'm supposed to go back to New York to do Geraldo, and we're going to be doing The Tonight Show.
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Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.
american-musician buddy keel played
When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did. Al Hirt
american-musician bad
It's been like a bad dream I never woke from. Alex Chilton
american-musician biggest guess life record series
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
american-musician meditate
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. Steve Swallow
american-musician built chipping died nine recorded songs sort studio
I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away. Stephen Stills
american-musician delighted dominate famous interviews problem seems
We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there. Stephen Malkmus
american-musician people
See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules. Herbie Hancock
american-musician practiced time
When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
american-musician space
The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff. Harry Connick, Jr.
american-musician audacity wound
The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece. Gregg Allman
american-musician hate million sold
Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies. Irving Berlin
american-musician lost
I got lost but look what I found.
american-musician taste
I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
american-musician closer played source twang
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.