31 Quotes by Adrian Belew

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

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.

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.

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.

My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster.

King Crimson is never easy; it’s challenging. That’s why I like it.

Currently I’m working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn’t be able to sound like.