"The worst thing about playing guitar is having to resist the urge to play fast all the time."
Spoken by Anna Calvi, award-winning Telecaster slinger.
What quote do you / would you hang in yours?
"The worst thing about playing guitar is having to resist the urge to play fast all the time."
Spoken by Anna Calvi, award-winning Telecaster slinger.
What quote do you / would you hang in yours?
In the early 80s, I worked with a guy in a record store who played. He said something unoriginal but apt, "Rock and roll = girls, cars, and guitars."
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
"You can prance around a wall of Marshalls and make a fool of yourself but you can't hide behind a Vibroverb."
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
"To thine own playing self be true" Randall William Rhoads (paraphrasing W. Shakespeare, I'm sure)
T 'n W
“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
Vera Nazarian
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever"
Polonius's speech from Hamlet that begins "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"--no, I didn't look it up on line; I taught the play for many years. Each time I read it, I saw more of its genius.
Factoid: The line comes from a speech to his children that is meant to show, in part, that Polonius is a blow hard, stringing together commonplace maxims that his adult children probably already know.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
"You can't keep a Les Paul in tune."
"Fuck this hurts."--Joan of Arc, when they torched her feet.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison