Quotes About Guitar Tone

#1. Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

Andrew Bird

#2. I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.

Angus Young

#3. One is prepared for friendship, not for friends.

Roberto Bolano

#4. In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Colin Greenwood

#5. There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

Wanda Koop

#6. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Groucho Marx

#7. I have undeniable evidence that many have awakened as a result of my raising hell. Raising hell is SO American rock-and-roll. And of course even soulless wimps love killer music and my incredible guitar tone.

Ted Nugent

#8. 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

#9. For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

John Bercow

#10. You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Arthur Godfrey

#11. Bloody hell, son, don't tell me you brought the girl with you. You, you never bring the strays home.

Sapphire.

#12. I will continue to stay very focused on the economy.

Donald Evans

#13. Bryan Adams might not be what I want to put on, but he's a pop singer with a great voice and great guitar tone. Plus, he's done more for Canada than Rush have, because he works all the time. I envy him for that.

Alex Lifeson

#14. I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Boris Kodjoe

#15. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

#16. I enjoy bathing, as many Europeans don't.

Craig Ferguson

#17. Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing

Junior Brown

#18. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are.

Miguel Ruiz

#19. I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble ... I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the wang bar, and just shake it on the floor ... a Stratocaster is pretty tough - I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that with their ES-335

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#20. How many fucking times do I have to tell you that you're special?"
"A million? Possibly more."
Cooper grinned at my tone. "Fair enough.

Bijou Hunter

#21. My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

Eric Clapton