Amp Up Quotes

#1. Moving from desire to actually doing better is only achieved with self-discipline, and self-discipline only works effectively when you trust in Him to help. Amp up your self-discipline in the areas you need it most.

Tony Dungy

#2. You can't amp up my sex drive. It's already over the top.

Karen Marie Moning

#3. The whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands

Mike Bloomfield

#4. It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

Brian Setzer

#5. When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique ...

Brad Paisley

#6. For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

Steven Price

#7. I have an amp that doesn't have a master volume. It sounds awesome, but we just can't get an appropriate decibel level out of it.

Joe Trohman

#8. I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I had my first electric, a Silvertone with the amp built into the case, and I won first prize.

Tommy Shaw

#9. The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

Johnny Rivers

#10. I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.

Kevin McKidd

#11. The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful.

Ben Weinman

#12. I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.

David Gilmour

#13. I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

Angus Young

#14. My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.

George Benson

#15. Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.

Keith Richards

#16. In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

Kerry King

#17. I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ritchie Blackmore

#18. In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Billy Gibbons

#19. If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

Eddie Van Halen

#20. I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.

Joe

#21. The next day I picked up my electric guitar and amp at a tag sale. Grandma Dotty loves tag sales, and somehow she managed to bargain with the guy who was selling them, until we paid just three dollars

James Patterson

#22. When I record in a studio I don't use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound - which is my favorite sound.

Bill Wyman

#23. You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP

John Paul Warren

#24. It's really funny, I think to myself ... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.

Brian Setzer

#25. The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.

Carrie Brownstein

#26. The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#27. The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.

Steve Vai

#28. The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.

Steve Vai

#29. I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.

Paul McCartney

#30. Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.

Dick Dale

#31. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

Dane Cook

#32. When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.'

Robbie Robertson

#33. I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

Jason Newsted

#34. Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

James Hetfield

#35. Your castles and strongholds shall have bars of iron and bronze, and as your day, so shall your strength, your rest and security, be. Deuteronomy 33:25 AMP

Anonymous

#36. Be not grieved and depressed, for the joy of the Lord is your strength and stronghold. NEHEMIAH 8:10 AMP

Various

#37. It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

Paul Westerberg

#38. If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.

Kurt Cobain

#39. I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Dee Dee Ramone

#40. Jeremiah 1:12 (AMP) says: "Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it.

Aly Taylor

#41. It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.

Rob Sheffield

#42. For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.

Kirk Hammett

#43. When I was commissioning a brand new solar photovoltaic utility site, I came across metal tubes installed into the fuseholders that were marked up as 100 amp fuses on the diagram. Needless to say, it had already gone on fire.

Steven Magee

#44. Steve and I caught Neil Young promoting his first solo album, his signature black Gibson plugged into a tiny Fender amp, blowing out the walls of the Bitter End.

Bruce Springsteen

#45. There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

Jeff Beck

#46. I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever.

Lester Holt

#47. True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier - when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Richard Hamming

#48. You should get some Rodan and Fields. The amp roller works wonders for scarring.

Colleen Hoover

#49. When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.

Kirk Hammett

#50. If I'm going to buy a new guitar, I take it to a good 'hot' room, like a tiled bathroom, and listen to the wood. If tone comes off the neck, you can bet it's gonna sound beautiful through an amp

Richard Betts

#51. It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.

Ashley Judd

#52. My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.

Andy Rourke

#53. Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#54. I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

Ace Frehley