Electric Music Quotes

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.

I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

I really prefer electric music.

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

The '90s period I just miss because it was such a great time and the music was just so electric. Everybody just had to bring their A-game back then because everybody that was, you know, a big influence...they were on the charts. I bring that era with me everywhere I go. I care about every word I sing. I care about every move I make on stage. I care about the fans. I bring that with me to the present time. And then, when you're timeless, you can work in any time.

Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it was always about putting together a time-based composition - and that is exactly what songwriting is, in its classic form.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

I probably own 100 guitars and all of them are electric.

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.

I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm trying to have a guitar built. What's needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.

I'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic to see what happens.

My record's all electric, and that's why I call it 'garage country.'

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.