Guitar Playing Quotes - Page 2

• When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or any attempts at interviews, whenever I'd write something about him, he'd be on the street corner saying, `When's it going to run? When's it going to run?' But I must say that album that was - it was the second album he did, and though I've never been a fan of his guitar-playing, he did - I have to admit, he did catch the Zeitgeist of the time.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Writing, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.

  Ted Leo

  Guitar, Style, Jazz

  "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

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• I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Voice, Guitar, Lessons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.

  Chris Isaak

  Party, Guitar, House

  "Chris Isaak Pays Tribute To Sun Studio's Golden Years". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 27, 2011.

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• I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.

  David Pajo

  Guitar, Cds, Interesting

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.

  Christian Fennesz

  School, College, Thinking

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

  David Byrne

  Guitar, Names, Envious

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• I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.

  Daniel Rossen

  Guitar, Always Trying, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

  Richard Lloyd

  Guitar, Style, Desperation

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• Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

  Merle Haggard

  Golf, Guitar, Play

  "A Q&A With Merle Haggard". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 24, 2005.

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• My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

  John Oates

  Guitar, Style, Synthesis

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• Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

  Brad Paisley

  Guitar, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

  George Thorogood

  Girl, Song, Guitar

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• There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.

  Eddie Vedder

  Strong, Guitar, Typewriters

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

  John Frusciante

  Spiritual, Guitar, Intellectual

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• I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Mean, Guitar

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• Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Guitar, Bounds

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• Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.

  Gary Snyder

  Guitar, Names, People

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• I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

  Dave Mustaine

  Growing Up, Pain, Anger

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• I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

  St. Vincent

  Girl, Dirty, Mean

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• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Song, Falling In Love, Heart

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• I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

  Bryan White

  Country, Heart, Artist

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• Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

  Lee Ritenour

  Guitar, Way, Stamps

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• Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Guitar, Mad

  Rolling Stone Magazine, December 1970.

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  Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

  Jimmy Page

  Character, Believe In Yourself, Guitar

  "Biography: Jimmy Page". www.thecinemaholic.com. April 04, 2018.

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