Quotes About Amplifiers

#1. My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.

Patti Smith

#2. They sounded really professional because they had two Vox AC 30 amplifiers. I also had an AC 30, so when you looked at it, three AC 30s, three Fenders - bloody hell, it must be a great band!

Tony Iommi

#3. I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

Dick Dale

#4. I don't plan [my recordings], I really don't. It's so spontaneous I wish all rock lovers and rock journalist could witness a Ted Nugent recording session. It is so primal, it's like idiot kids in the garage with their first loud amplifiers, its intoxicating, it is irreverent, it is uninhibited.

Ted Nugent

#5. Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.

Linda Ronstadt

#6. The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through a microphone, amplifiers, transmission lines, radio transmitter, receiving set, and, finally, the loud speaker apparatus itself.

Raymond Scott

#7. Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

Bob Seger

#8. I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.

Imogen Heap

#9. I sought Morozova amplifiers for you Alina, so that we can rule as equals

Leigh Bardugo

#10. Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Buddy Guy

#11. Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Dick Dale

#12. Heresy is just philosophy that the establishment doesn't approve of,

Mary Jo Putney

#13. Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.

Arthur Japin

#14. I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

Maya Angelou

#15. The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting

Charlotte Shane

#16. Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

Dan Jenkins

#17. Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier.

Kathy Sierra

#18. Sometimes, cause and effect are centuries apart

Rebecca Solnit

#19. Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too.

Matt De La Pena

#20. A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty.

Elsa Schiaparelli

#21. I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier

Bran Ferren

#22. He'd spent his life with orphans, he understood their special plight, so he didn't hate them like most people did. He just wasn't one of them.

Adam Johnson

#23. We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.

Marc Levine