Quotes of: Amp Keyword

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.

Kirk Hammett

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibr...

Ani DiFranco

I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.

Ryan Sheckler

For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, t...

Kirk Hammett

My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.

George Benson

Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.

Dick Dale

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

Johnny Rivers

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Billy Gibbons

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

Tommy Chong

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Dee Dee Ramone

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

Russell Peters

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

Johnny Rivers

If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps.

The Wizard & The Wanton

I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

Jason Newsted

In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

Kerry King

You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP

John Paul Warren

It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.

Rob Sheffield

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

Eddie Van Halen

I have an amp that doesn't have a master volume. It sounds awesome, but we just can't get an appropriate decibel level out of it.

Joe Trohman

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

Dane Cook