Guitar Music Quotes

• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Fake People, Peace

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• Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Mistake, Guitar

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• If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Reality

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Mistake, Men

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• Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Jazz And Life, Boundaries

  "Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.

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• If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mistake, Trying, Ifs

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• To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

  Waylon Jennings

  Inspirational, Ems, Kind

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• It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Keys, Play

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• Man, there's no boundary line to art!

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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  The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Music, Sacrifice

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• I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Music, Kids, Guitar

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• Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Safe, Way

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• Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• A good player can make any guitar sound good.

  Mike Bloomfield

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

  John Lee Hooker

  Mean, Play, Want

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• If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Player, Skills, Reason

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• I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Kids, Naked

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

  Andres Segovia

  Color, Voice, Different

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  If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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