Acoustic Night Quotes

I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?

I don’t know if I ever liked you,” I say, and bathroom acoustics being what they are, the declaration is magnified and that much more unkind, which makes me feel bad until I see that he is missing a shoe, and I feel it anew, this terrible disappointment in myself that I am happy to take out on him. He is the most obvious thing that has ever happened to me, and all around the city it is happening to other silly, half-formed women excited by men who’ve simply met the prerequisite of living a little more life, a terribly unspecial thing that is just what happens when you keep on getting up and brushing your teeth and going to work and ignoring the whisper that comes to you at night and tells you it would be easier to be dead. So, sure, an older man is a wonder because he has paid thirty-eight years of Con Ed bills and suffered food poisoning and seen the climate reports and still not killed himself, but somehow, after being a woman for twenty-three years, after the ovarian torsion and student loans and newfangled Nazis in button-downs, I too am still alive, and actually this is the more remarkable feat. Instead I let myself be awed by his middling command of the wine list.

I love you like an acoustic song. The words mean more. The emotions are magnified. It’s like the stars … during the day we don’t see them, but at night when the world around us feels stripped and bare, they shine so brightly.

I was holding on to hurricane nights and lit candles and my acoustic guitar resting in your hands. I was holding on to the sound of your voice saying my name and the peace I felt with your arms around me. I was holding on to documentaries in bed and your beautiful eyes closed as you sang Rocket Man and all the songs we never finished. I was holding on to our first text and last phone call and the plane ticket you offered but never sent. I was holding on to our first Christmas together and the last few Christmas Eves apart and I've been thinking we should be together. we should be kissing even if there isn't any mistletoe because if I have you there' no reason to celebrate and fuck, your lips were mine. They were always supposed to be mine. I was holding on to hope and banana pancakes on Sundays. I was holding on to Main Street and sunsets in Jersey. I was holding on to two streets that separated us and blizzards that couldn't keep us apart. I was holding on to you. I was holding on to us. And it was killing me.

To speak your Heart out nothing can be better than Night and Acoustic guitar !!

All my parents wanted was the open road and a VW camper van. That was enough escape for them. The ocean, the night sky, some acoustic guitar.. what more could you ask? Well, actually, you could ask to go soaring off the side of a mountain on a snowboard, feeling as if, for one moment you are riding the clouds instead of the snow. You could scour Southeast Asia, like the world weary twenty somethings in Alex Garland’s novel The Beach, looking for the one corner of the globe uncharted by the Lonely Planet to start your own private utopia. You could, for the matter, join a new age cult and dream of alien abduction. From the occult to raves to riots it seems that the eternal urge for escape has never enjoyed such niche marketing.

I’ll say this for the celestial spheres, though: great acoustics. We’re talking Platonic ideals here. Pythagoras would have smashed his corny little harp across his knee if he’d heard it.

Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew the place up. They were standing on chairs adn lying on the floor, they were funny, they charmed everyone in the pub apart from an old drunk ditting next to the drum kit...who put his fingers firmly in his ears during Serge's extended harmonica solo. It was utterly bizarre and very moving: most musicians wouldn't have bothered turning up, let alone almost killing themselves. And I was reminded...how rarely one feels included in a live show. Usually you watch, and listen, and drift off, and the band plays well or doesn't and it doesn't matter much either way. It can actually be a very lonely experience. But I felt a part of the music, and a part of the people I'd gone with, and, to cut this short before the encores, I didn't want to read for about a fortnight afterward. I wanted to write, but I didn't want to read no book. I was too itchy, too energized, and if young people feel like that every night of the week, then, yes, literature 's dead as a dodo. (Nick's thoughts after seeing Marah at a little pub called Fiddler's Elbow.)

The fact is that the Listeners are trying to work out precisely what it is that the Creator said when He made the universe. The theory is quite straightforward. Clearly, nothing that the Creator makes could ever be destroyed, which means that the echoes of those first syllables must still be around somewhere, bouncing and rebounding off all the matter in the cosmos but still audible to a really good listener. Eons ago the Listeners found that ice and chance had carved this one valley into the perfect acoustic opposite of an echo valley, and had built their multic-hambered temple in the exact position that the one comfy chair always occupies in the home of a rabid hi-fi fanatic. Complex baffles caught and amplified the sound that was funnelled up the chilly valley, steering it ever inwards to the central chamber where, at any hour of the day or night, three monks always sat. Listening. There were certain problems caused by the fact that they didn't hear only the subtle echoes of the first words, but every other sound made on the Disc. In order to recognise the sound of the Words, they had to learn to recognise all other noises. This called for a certain talent, and a novice was only accepted for training if he could distinguish by sound alone, at a distance of a thousand yards, which side a dropped coin landed. He wasn;t actually accepted into the order until he could tell what colour it was.

Perhaps because the Beatles commanded enormous space across the country’s newspaper real estate, Bob Dylan seemed the far more likely music figure to assume the mantle of bard, or at the very least start issuing volumes of poetry. Already, Dylan attracted British esteem as a “poet,” long before this debate started up in America, and allowed skeptics to disdain Lennon as a mere pop star while Dylan still wore his acoustic folkie halo. Many writers gloss over how Dylan’s leap to rock ’n’ roll during the coming season came as a far greater shock to British sensibilities than it did to American ears. For Lennon to issue verse in book form ahead of Dylan had a kind of weird British advance revenge to it, as though they could not just conquer American music but best them at the word game as well, and who better to do so than the giant pop star whose brains were obviously way too advanced for this rock stuff he would surely grow out of? Lennon and Dylan began to spar in the British imagination, the antic Scouser who always threatened to go round the bend against the oddly prolific American whose epic abstractions quite nearly absolved him of being Jewish. Since In His Own Write’s release on April 7, 1964, reviewers had gone overboard to praise Lennon’s unlikely literary success while conservative scribblers—like that old man on A Hard Day’s Night’s train—lambasted yet another example of youth’s ingratitude. In His Own Write became another Beatlemania sideshow that gave Lennon’s pop stature heft.

Hi, Bruce,’ said Uzma. ‘Hello,’ Bruce replied. ‘Would it be possible to have a photo taken?’ she asked. ‘Sure, we can do that!’ he replied, smiling broadly. I took the photograph. Then it was my turn. He signed my book and bandanna and posed for another photograph. Just as I was about to let the next fan have their moment in the sun I turned to Springsteen and said, ‘Bruce. Three words: “Point Blank”, acoustic’ The following night I was sitting in the Sheffield Arena with Amolak and my sister. It was 16 April 1993 and we were in the front block ten or fifteen rows from the stage. Uzma was having the time of her life. It was her first Springsteen concert and it was so wonderful to see her having so much fun. Springsteen had just finished singing ‘Badlands’ when he requested an acoustic guitar and told the audience: ‘A fella came up to me and asked for this song. I don't know if he's out there tonight, but if he is, this is for you.’ He began slowly strumming the acoustic guitar before singing, ‘Do you still say your prayers darling, before you go to bed at night? Praying that tomorrow everything will be all right?’ He was singing ‘Point Blank’. I doubled up, buried my face in my hands and wept. Amolak hugged me. ‘Point Blank’ was one of my favourite songs. I never imagined I would hear it sung acoustically. The fact that Springsteen had remembered my request and then decided to actually listen to my suggestion was overwhelming. As I continued to cry uncontrollably and as Bruce Springsteen continued to sing ‘Point Blank’, Amolak said to me: ‘You see, buddy, dreams do come true.’ *

... we no longer wake up with the dawn chorus and settle down for the night with the hum of crickets. But just as our circadian rhythms are affected by exposure to natural light, sounds can act as cues for our sense of time and how we feel. ... There are alarm clocks that can help with your acoustic circadian rhythms by playing birdsong to wake you and the sound of waves lapping as you go to sleep... try creating your own soundtrack for the day.

It also had extraordinary acoustics: in the hush of the small hours, a goods truck smashing into a pothole sounded like an explosion, and the fantastic howl of a passing motorbike once caused Rachel to vomit with terror. Around the clock, ambulances sped eastward on West 23rd Street with a sobbing escort of police motorcycles. Sometimes I confused the cries of the sirens with my son's night-time cries. I would leap out of bed and go to his bedroom and helplessly kiss him, even though my rough face sometimes woke him and I'd have to stay with him and rub his tiny rigid back until he fell asleep once more. Afterwards I slipped out onto the balcony and stood there like a sentry. The pallor of the so-called hours of darkness was remarkable. Directly to the north of the hotel, a succession of cross-streets glowed as if each held a dawn. The tail lights, the coarse blaze of deserted office buildings, the lit storefronts, the orange fuzz of the street lanterns: all this garbage of light had been refined into a radiant atmosphere that rested in a low silver heap over Midtown and introduced to my mind the mad thought that the final twilight was upon New York.

Down That Road soulful acoustic outlaw country [Verse] Son, I've been down that road, it's a lonely, dark trail, Battlin' the demons, chasin' whiskey and the ale, Lost in the night, where the stars don't gleam, Drownin' in the bottle, haunted by the dream. [Verse 2] I let the drugs and booze take control of my soul, Livin' in the shadows, fallin' in a hole, Days turned to nights, in a blurry haze, Each step I took was just another daze. [Chorus] But I fought long and hard to break those chains, To rise from the ashes, to soothe the pains, Found my way back to where I need to be, Son, you can too, just take it from me. [Verse 3] I've seen the bottom, where the cold winds blow, A life of regrets, where the sorrow flows, But there's a light that shines, if you reach for the sky, A reason each day to give it one more try. [Chorus] I fought long and hard to break those chains, To rise from the ashes, to soothe the pains, Found my way back to where I need to be, Son, you can too, just take it from me. [Bridge] It's a hard-worn path, with lessons learned, But there's hope in the struggle, and peace to be earned, Look to the future, let the past be gone, Keep movin' forward, and keep pressin' on.

Then came “Satisfaction,” the track that launched us into global fame. I was between girlfriends at the time, in my flat in Carlton Hill, St. John’s Wood. Hence maybe the mood of the song. I wrote “Satisfaction” in my sleep. I had no idea I’d written it, it’s only thank God for the little Philips cassette player. The miracle being that I looked at the cassette player that morning and I knew I’d put a brand-new tape in the previous night, and I saw it was at the end. Then I pushed rewind and there was “Satisfaction.” It was just a rough idea. There was just the bare bones of the song, and it didn’t have that noise, of course, because I was on acoustic. And forty minutes of me snoring. But the bare bones is all you need. I had that cassette for a while and I wish I’d kept

Son, I've Been Down That Road soulful acoustic outlaw country [Verse] Son, I've been down that road, it's a lonely, dark trail, Battlin' the demons, chasin' whiskey and the ale, Lost in the night, where the stars don't gleam, Drownin' in the bottle, haunted by the dream. [Verse 2] I let the drugs and booze take control of my soul, Livin' in the shadows, fallin' in a hole, Days turned to nights, in a blurry haze, Each step I took was just another daze. [Chorus] But I fought long and hard to break those chains, To rise from the ashes, to soothe the pains, Found my way back to where I need to be, Son, you can too, just take it from me. [Verse 3] I've seen the bottom, where the cold winds blow, A life of regrets, where the sorrow flows, But there's a light that shines, if you reach for the sky, A reason each day to give it one more try. [Chorus] I fought long and hard to break those chains, To rise from the ashes, to soothe the pains, Found my way back to where I need to be, Son, you can too, just take it from me. [Bridge] It's a hard-worn path, with lessons learned, But there's hope in the struggle, and peace to be earned, Look to the future, let the past be gone, Keep movin' forward, and keep pressin' on.

I don’t love when you can’t sleep, but I love when I wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of you playing your acoustic.” “I didn’t know you heard that. I always shut the door and try to keep it down.” “I never want you to keep it down. I want you to play what your heart tells you.

This Country's Going to Hell gritty acoustic outlaw country [Verse] Once we had a land, wide and proud, Where freedom's song rang out loud. One nation under a heavenly light, But now it’s fading, lost in the night. [Verse 2] Factories closed, fields go bare, Main Street’s dying in the evening air. God was once our guiding hand, Now it's time we take a stand. [Chorus] This country’s going to hell, Where did we go wrong, who can tell? Let’s put God back in this land, We, the people, must take a stand. [Verse 3] Empty churches, echoing halls, The rise begins when a nation falls. Lest we forget what once made us great, Let’s pray before it’s too late. [Bridge] Bring back the days of honor and trust, When faith in the Lord was more than just dust. We’ve strayed too far, lost our way, Together we can reclaim that day. [Verse 4] Heroes fought, gave their lives, For freedom that’s now on the edge of knives. We need more than slogans and deals, It's soul and spirit that heals.

I love you like an acoustic song. The words mean more. The emotions are magnified. It's like the star.... during The day we don't see them, but at night when the world around us feels stripped and bare, they shire so brightly. I've never seen anything as beautiful as you are in this very moment. Our love is... flawed but perfect. It's honest and open. It's naked, ... our love is a naked love.

I love you like an acoustic song. The words mean more. The emotions are magnified. It's like the star… during the day we don't see them, but at night when the world around us feels stripped and bare, they shine so brightly. I've never seen anything as beautiful as you are in this very moment. Our love is... flawed but perfect. It's honest and open. It's naked, ... our love is a naked love.

Apparently, Paul McCartney and I were on the same wavelength that night, because five songs into the set, he played a number that only a small, demented fraction of the audience wanted to hear. And yet there he was, jamming on “Temporary Secretary,” seemingly oblivious to the mass confusion created by the song’s mind-bending mess of synth bleeps and slashing acoustic guitar and McCartney’s robo-ranting about needing a woman who can be a belly dancer but not a true romancer. I loved it, and I loved how the people around me didn’t love it.

Born to Bleed - Red Hearse I Just Don’t Care That Much - Matt Maeson Damned if I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t) - All Time Low Bad Kind of Butterflies  - Camila Cabello Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting - Elton John Peer Pressure - James Bay (ft. Julia Michaels) My Oh My - Camila Cabello Heaven - Julia Michaels Graveyard (acoustic) - Halsey Good Things Fall Apart - Illenium & Jon Bellion Break Me - The Band Camino