Guitarist Quotes - Page 8

• I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

  Israel Broussard

  Dream, Musician, Entertainment

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

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• I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Rooms, Drummer

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, People, Bass

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

  David Amram

  Player, Thinking, Compliments You

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• Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know?

  David First

  Song, Strong, Hate

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it.

  Jake Pitts

  Guitar, Practice, Play

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• Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

  James Stewart

  Funny, Inspiring, Trying

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• I just plug in and let go.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Funny, Inspiring, Letting Go

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• If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

  Russell Malone

  Funny, Inspiring, Team

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• Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

  Andy Summers

  Funny, Inspiring, Done

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• To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

  John Abercrombie

  Funny, Inspiring, Imperfection

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• I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

  Richard Thompson

  Funny, Inspiring, Nice

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• Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

  Peter Tork

  Sunday, Guitar, Band

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• With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion.

  Bill Milkowski

  Fashion, New York, Cds

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• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  M. Ward

  Mean, Sound

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• Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times!

  Narada Michael Walden

  Rays, All Time

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• I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.

  Richie Havens

  Trios, Congas, Havens

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• Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

  Drew Houston

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

  Miyavi

  Guitar, Samurai, Feels

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• The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.

  Bulat Okudzhava

  Singers, Composer, Hated

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• If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

  Robin Trower

  Guitar, If I Could, Ifs

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• Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

  Tina Weymouth

  Kids, Guitar, Mentor

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• I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

  Colin Greenwood

  Guitar

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

  Alex Van Halen

  Brother, Guitar, Rooms

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• I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Sitting, Chairs

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