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I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

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

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

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

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

The acoustics seem to get louder

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.

Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.

I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.

Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much.

Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to make field recordings of ice to create a symphony - acoustic portraits of ice.

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

I've always been fond of acoustic music.

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me.

My sound is super hybrid; the acoustic sounds are there and the electronic sounds are there.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

I've always toured solo acoustic.