Manuel Velazquez quotes

“A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul.”
-- Manuel Velazquez

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“It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.”

“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”

“I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.”

Source : "KISS's Ace Frehley Tells All (Or Some?) in Advance of Upcoming Memoir". Interview with Jaan Uhelszki, www.themortonreport.com. August 05, 2011.

“I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.”

“I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.”

Source : Ace Frehley (2011). “No Regrets”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

“The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.”

“Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.”

“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”

“I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.”

“I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.”