Adrian Belew Quotes
"Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Guitar)
"Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth."
- Adrian Belew
"DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Songs)
"For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Example, Song, Sound, Talk)
"I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Age, Guitar, Play, Songs)
"I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: First)
"I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Artists)
"As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Effect, Vocabulary)
"I love drums and still play frequently."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Love, Play)
"King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it."
- Adrian Belew
"I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Thought)
"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Guitar, Sound)
"King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Europe, Will)
"Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Age, School)
"The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Work)
"We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!"
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Time, May, Play, Spring, Will, Writing)
"Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Forget, Lonely, Luxury)
"I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Guitar, Secrets, Years)
"My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort."
- Adrian Belew
(Related: Work, Effort, Favorite, Trying)