#tried

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#brings #building #could #done #effects

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. ↗

— Alex Haley

#find #good #i #i tried #much

I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#chinese #following #gets #i #i think

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#asked #astaire #cope #dance #face

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#cuba #especially #fascinating #get #great

The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That's how I came up with it. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#drop #ever #high #hit #how

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me. ↗

— Janis Ian

#bands #gave #going #guitar #guitar lessons

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#independent #keep #language #platform #project

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money. ↗

— Vanilla Ice

#commit #i #i tried #money #realized

I've never tried to manipulate my image. ↗