Top Acoustic Quotes
Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
Jimmy Griffin
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.
Tommy Shaw
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
Marc Almond
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
Shawn Colvin
Steve Forbert 
Travis Barker 
Rick Derringer 
Dan Fogelberg 
Bob Mould 
Graham Nash 
Dave Van Ronk 
Lisa Loeb 
Lester Bangs 
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Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
Jimmy Griffin 
70% of people like this quote
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.
Billie Joe Armstrong
68% of people like this quote
On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.
Tommy Shaw
63% of people like this quote
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
Shawn Colvin
57% of people like this quote
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
Marc Almond
57% of people like this quote
Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
Alan Parsons
56% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
Robyn Hitchcock
55% of people like this quote
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
Travis Barker
55% of people like this quote
Popular Acoustic Authors
Paul SimonGraham NashTommy ShawTravis BarkerGraham CoxonBillie Joe ArmstrongRobyn HitchcockAce FrehleyElliott SmithRosanne CashBill BrufordJules ShearJoan ArmatradingLester BangsGavin Bryars
Dan FogelbergRichard ThompsonKip WingerJohnny WinterNeil SchonRobert FrippMarc AlmondRick DerringerGiorgio MoroderDave Van RonkDweezil ZappaRandy BachmanRoman JakobsonBill MumyMark Knopfler
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