#oust

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#acoustic guitar #baltimore #be a man #been #blues

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#her #houston #like #name #sell

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing. ↗

— LaToya London

#ballad #big #bring #came #carey

Houston, we've had a problem here. ↗

— James A. Lovell

#here #houston #problem

I find it's impossible for me to read Proust. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#i #impossible #me #proust #read

I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#always #any #band #been #certainly

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. ↗

— Kenneth Miller

#electric #expressive #instrument #match #mystery

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#great #narrative #novel #poetry #produced

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

#album #already #area #california #down

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#difficult #get #good #instrument #least