Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Jimmy Griffin Quote: 'Dorsey played the upright bass and ...'

Related Quotes

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.
Alex Lifeson
Tags: Mom Christmas Me
boat beach sea water nature ship
If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.


Elliott Smith
Tags: You Play Guy
marmolada dolomites italy alpine
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.


Dan Fogelberg
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.
Gregg Allman
Tags: Time Good Great
In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.
Graham Parker
Tags: About Just Really
Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together. I would hear him sing every night.
Etta James
Tags: Time Car Just
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.
Corey Taylor
dolomites mountains italy alpine
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.


Brownie McGhee
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
John Entwistle
Tags: Time Age Were
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.
Lee Ritenour
Tags: Music You Very
I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. And of course as the cousins got older, including myself, we joined a family band. All the cousins played. That's my heritage.
Jon Batiste
Tags: Family Dad Had
vilsalpsee allgäu bergsee lake
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.


Teena Marie
Tags: Play Guitar Piano
dolomites mountains italy alpine
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.


Adam Jones
Tags: Been Way Many
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.
Hunter Hayes
I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.
Ronnie Montrose
Tags: Work Make Most
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
Gary Clark, Jr.
Tags: Like Had First
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.
Bruno Mars
Tags: Like Just Been
I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
Ringo Starr
Tags: Me Always Been
There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.
Graham Coxon
Tags: Time People Think
Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' influenced me. 'Ziggy Stardust' influenced Johnny Ramone a lot, especially his guitar parts.
Tommy Ramone
Tags: Me Lot His