Classical Guitar Quotes

• It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

  Stevie Nicks

  Birthday, Mom, Song

  "A Three-Way with Stevies Williams, Nicks, and Wonder". Interview with Brayden Olson, www.vice.com. August 15, 2012.

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• The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

  Andres Segovia

  Guitar Music, Color, Voice

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• I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Play, Acoustics

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

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• The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

  Jimmy Page

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• ... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.

  Roger McGuinn

  Music, Heart, Wine

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• I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.

  Cory Arcangel

  Guitar, Complicated, Heavy Metal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

  Mick Mars

  Thinking, Rocks, Guitar

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• From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

  Jimmy Page

  Mean, Thinking, Guitar

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• What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

  Faye Kellerman

  Guitar, Differences, Four

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• You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

  Steve Vai

  Play, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustics

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

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• I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

  Mike Figgis

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

  Andrew Garfield

  Depressing, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

  Mark Kozelek

  Guitar, Boxing, Guy

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

  Fred Frith

  Guitar, Notes, Hammered

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• When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

  Andrew Garfield

  Depressing, Reality, Guitar

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Bars, Aliens

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

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• There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

  Andy Summers

  College, Guitar, Periods

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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

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do-write songs and sing them to people. [...] Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

  Stevie Nicks

  Mom, Song, Dad

  "A Three-Way with Stevies Williams, Nicks, and Wonder". Interview with Brayden Olson, www.vice.com. August 15, 2012.

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• When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

  Moby

  Rocks, Guitar, Years

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