The Peruvian Amazon was amazing. We cooked alligator and I got stung by an electric eel.
Most car companies in the world are saying they’re going to electric vehicles. That’s an inevitability. The question is, ‘Can we do that in a way that’s going to be really good for our economy and for American workers and American consumers?’
To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its students, and anything new.
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don’t think a great book has yet been written on computer.
I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I’m probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.
There are a lot of cases where I’m using, if not an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar more as a rhythm instrument. Rather than blasting away, I use it to create more of an acoustic feel.
When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.
I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range – it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat’s, while my legs are really just for show.
The worst job I ever had was working in the call center of an electric company. I sat in a tiny cubicle getting yelled at every day so I could earn minimum wage.
I’m probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic to see what happens.
Nine times out of 10, you see electric bikes being used for deliveries, but you’re getting in a taxi, using a commuter train, not realizing that you can be a part of the green, clean energy movement as well.
New York feels vibrant… It feels electric to walk the streets at night.
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
We need to improve our public transportation and invest in physical infrastructure changes so that people can safely choose alternatives to driving like walking, riding a bike or even, yes, electric scooters.
Had I become a priest, the sermons would’ve been electric!
Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case ’cause he thinks it’s a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there’s a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.
Electric cars are the future.
I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours’ lives hell!
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.
I don’t listen to Nirvana plugged anymore. I think there’s a whole group of people who have semi-forgotten that Nirvana used electric guitars because of the ‘Unplugged’ album. It’s so great.
Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.
General Electric, NBC’s parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.
We’ve got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the groups.
I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.
I’ve always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
Because of its shortcomings – driving range, cost, and recharging time – the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.
I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.
Under Ronald Reagan, hatred of the liberal media took on a storybook quality. Reagan had honed his political skills as a spokesman for General Electric.
It took me a while to get an electric guitar and a bass and amps and stuff. Playing the acoustic guitar was much easier and more affordable. But I was always listening to the radio and was interested in all the rock and pop music.
To me, the sax is rock n’ roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.
