Unplugged Music Quotes

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.

When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.

If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.

... I like the clubs because ... we have two or three acoustic guitars up there and we're not hard-core slamming or stomping through the music. We're singing it with intricate harmonies and really showing the craftsmanship.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.