top of page
"I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular."
Standard
Customized
More

"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."
Author Name
Personal Development

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
Author Name
Personal Development

"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
Author Name
Personal Development

"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."
Author Name
Personal Development

"My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count."
Work

"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."
Jazz

"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
Ballet

"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
Melancholy

"I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band."
Want

"I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings."
Old

"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."
Life

"Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing."
Attention

"Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated."
Winter

"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
Guitar
bottom of page