Unplugged Performance Quotes

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.

I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

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.

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

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

To be honest, the acoustic stuff's my favorite thing to do.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

I love the acoustic sets. Growing up, me and my dad would always watch those because we loved seeing the songs stripped back.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

I've always been fond of acoustic music.

Live music is better.

Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.'

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

I've always been inspired by female performers and artists who really surround who they are around their voice. For me, it's always been about the voice. I wanna hear someone just sit by a piano, on a stool, and just sing - and that's it!

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

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.

I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I'm likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don't plug it in!

In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.

I think acoustic performances and full, live performances are always cool in different ways.

I just play my guitar and push my songs and I'd like to keep it quiet.