Acoustics Quotes

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

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

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

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

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues

I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

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.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.

The acoustics seem to get louder

I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

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

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

I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.

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

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

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

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

When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.

I collaborated with a brilliant young sound designer named Anthony Mattana, who enriched the sound of the total production with vocal effects, percussive and other sounds. He also mixed the sound effects and the music, using the theater's first rate sound system to complement the theater's acoustics. This completed my score.

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

Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.

My sound is super hybrid; the acoustic sounds are there and the electronic sounds are there.

The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

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

Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to make field recordings of ice to create a symphony - acoustic portraits of ice.

I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much.

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.

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

I've always toured solo acoustic.

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