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1. "Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations."
Author: Alexander Cockburn
2. "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!'"
Author: Angus Young
3. "Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles."
Author: Buddy Guy
4. "Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier."
Author: Daisy Berkowitz
5. "Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier."
Author: Dick Dale
6. "I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."
Author: Dick Dale
7. "About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it."
Author: Dweezil Zappa
8. "Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly."
Author: Harold Stephen Black
9. "I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer."
Author: Imogen Heap
10. "You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community."
Author: Jonathan Tisch
11. "People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be."
Author: Lee Child
12. "I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now."
Author: Lee Ritenour
13. "Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men."
Author: Leigh Bardugo
14. "The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is."So?"So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid."
Author: Margaret Atwood
15. "In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically."
Author: Michael Schenker
16. "I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself."
Author: Michael Schenker
17. "Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant."
Author: Ritchie Blackmore
18. "Faith is the amplifier that will allow the universe to hear and resonate with your music."
Author: Ruben Papian
19. "I'm reading Keith Richards' autobiography. I didn't even know he could read, never mind write. Probably all recorded off a Marshall amplifier."
Author: Sienna McQuillen
20. "It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]"
Author: William Shockley

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