Guitar Sound Quotes:

My first love was the sound of guitar.

- Boz Scaggs

topic: First Love, Guitar, Sound, Guitar Sound

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

- Mike Bloomfield

topic: Player, Guitar, Musical, Guitar Player, Guitar Music

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

- Jeff Beck

source: FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Jul 27, 2010

topic: Guitar, Years, People, Guitar Player, Guitar Sound

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

- Brian May

topic: Guitar, Gadgets, Technique, Guitar Sound

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

- Adrian Belew

topic: Guitar, Sound, Able, Guitar Sound

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

- Johnny Winter

topic: Mean, Men, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Sound

...Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off ...

- Chet Atkins

topic: Music, Ideas, Style, Guitar Music, Guitar Sound

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

- Angus Young

topic: People, Sick, Sound, Guitar Sound, Songwriters

I like to make my guitar sound mean.

- Mark Tremonti

topic: Mean, Guitar, Sound, Guitar Sound

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

- Leo Kottke

topic: Mean, Guitar, Sound, Guitar Sound

Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered.

- Robin Guthrie

topic: Guitar, Interesting, Waiting, Guitar Sound

We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.

- Rob Halford

topic: Thinking, Guitar, Ideas, Subliminal Messages, Subliminal

I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.

- Dave Navarro

topic: Music, Thinking, Hair, Guitar Sound

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

- James Hetfield

topic: Guitar, Sound, Quantity, Guitar Sound

Sometimes I'll hear a certain approach that kinda cathes my ear, like „It's kinda cool what that guy's doing there", or maybe an effect that somebody's using, or a guitar sound, or something that kinda makes me open up. But the funny thing is i realise over time how sort of traditional i am.

- John Petrucci

source: Source: www.rockbook.hu

topic: Guitar, Funny Things, Guy, Guitar Sound

Yeah. I started using them [SDD-3000s] shortly after first working with Edge on The Unforgettable Fire. Basically, I stole his sound. It wasn't a complicated rig: just a guitar he liked through a Korg SDD-3000 digital delay into a Vox. Three components, mono - that's it. The great thing about the Korgs is its three-position level switch, which lets you hit the amp with about 10 extra dB. It's more overdriven than if you just plugged the guitar straight into the amp, even when it's on bypass. But a lot of the guitar sounds on Achtung Baby were recorded through a Korg A3 effects processor.

- Daniel Lanois

topic: Baby, Fire, Guitar, Mono, Guitar Sound

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

- Matt Tong

topic: Guitar, Trying, Sound, Synthesizers, Guitar Sound

I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.

- Christian Fennesz

source: Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

topic: School, College, Thinking, Guitar Playing, Guitar Sound

The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.

- Annie E. Clark

topic: Song, Guitar, Sound, Guitar Sound

It's amazing. It's actually build from old Siemens Telefunken transistors from the 60ties. There is like 10 in there. It's the most powerful distortion you can have. It does not only do distortion, it does so many weird things. You can't control it, it's sound different all the time. But it's an endless source for fantastic sounds. For example the track "Transit" is entirely made with this box. You have to put the guitar sound in. It's like a pedal.

- Christian Fennesz

topic: Powerful, Guitar, Track, Transistors, Guitar Sound

Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Voice, Guitar, Black, Combining, Black Sabbath

I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.

- Daniel Rossen

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Guitar, Always Trying, Sound, Palette, Pillaging

Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.

- Gary Hoey

topic: Dream, Guitar, Careers, Guitar Sound

It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

- Billy Corgan

source: Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

topic: Guitar, Play, Guy, Black Sabbath, Guitar Sound

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

- Joe Trohman

topic: Guitar, Sound, Littles, Somber, Guitar Sound

... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before...

- Eddie Van Halen

topic: Music, Mistake, Men, Guitar Music, Guitar Sound

... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that sounded good when played it ... and he cared nothing about the collectibility of an instrument ... his philosophy was "A good player can make any guitar sound good" ... to Michael, a guitar was just a tool...

- Nick Gravenites

topic: Music, Philosophy, Player, Guitar Sound

Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next.... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray.

- Pete Townshend

topic: New York, Mean, Men, Jagger, Quiet Man