Guitar Quotes - Page 10

• Sometimes, you don't need a $5,000 guitar - you need $5,000 worth of lessons.

  Chris Smither

  Lessons, Needs, Sometimes

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• I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

  Gary Cherone

  Player, Temples, Fans

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• I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

  Guy Clark

  Player, Years, Talent

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• I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

  Brownie McGhee

  Steel, Amplification, Needed

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• I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

  Leo Kottke

  Piano, Notes, Instruments

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• Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

  Kristin Hersh

  Media, Play, People

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• I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Guy, Age, Tone

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• Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

  Buddy Guy

  Perfect, Car, Style

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• I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Tired, Player, Sick

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• It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

  Sammy Hagar

  Player, Guy, Style

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• Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

  Kirk Hammett

  Player, Technique, Reacting

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• Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Bass, Banging

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• Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

  Zakk Wylde

  Time, Beer, Play

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• I did play every little note on the guitar on that record

  Lita Ford

  Play, Records, Littles

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• From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles

  Pat Metheny

  Icons, Culture, Thanks

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• I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

  Mick Ronson

  Trying

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• It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

  Gary Burton

  Artist, Player, Musician

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• I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Fun, Writing, Helping

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• I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

  Kip Winger

  Play, Piano, Hard Life

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• It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

  Graham Coxon

  Play, Jam, Band

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• The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

  Alan Price

  Real, Play, Together

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• I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

  Alan Price

  Phrases, Use, Chords

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• Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

  Phil Lesh

  Grateful, Player, Different

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• I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

  Rick Derringer

  Player, People, Way

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• Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

  Tommy Rettig

  Mother, Song, Writing

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