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Musical Instrument Maker Inspirational Quotes (61)

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Life is too precious to spend it with important people.
Harry Partch
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.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
Les Paul
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I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.
Guy Clark
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One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.
Robert Moog
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I wonder if I could make an electric bass.
Leo Fender
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I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.
Paul Reed Smith
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I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.
Guy Clark
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Noise tri­umphs and reigns supreme over the sen­si­bil­ity of men.
Luigi Russolo
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I change guitars as they come and go. I have one I played for almost a decade, but I've put it away. It was the first McCarty. Now, I'm playing one I grabbed off the line. I've been playing it ever since.
Paul Reed Smith
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I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
Robert Moog
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As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.
Luigi Russolo
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Every guitar has a personality.
Jol Dantzig
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It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.
Les Paul
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I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.
Guy Clark
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I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.
Les Paul
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Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.
Robert Moog
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If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.
Les Paul
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My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
Robert Moog
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Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.
Robert Moog
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Originality cannot be a goal. It is simply inevitable. The truly pathbreaking step can never be predicted, and certainly not by the person who makes it at the time he makes it. He clears as he goes, evolves his own techniques, devises his own tools, ignores where he must. And his path cannot be retraced, because each of us is an original being.
Harry Partch
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By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.
Robert Moog
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The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.
Les Paul
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Interesting little game we play with each other.
Guy Clark
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You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.
Les Paul
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