Edgar Winter Quotes

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

I play any piano with a good tune.

Any voice where you've got to scream over a battle or whatever, that's always difficult. It's harder than it seems.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.