Guitar Player Quotes - Page 2

• I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

  Jimmy Page

  Believe, Unique, Player

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• For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.

  Anna Ternheim

  Song, Writing, Player

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

  Scott Ian

  Player, Guitar, Trying

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• I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing of the basic elements. I try to practice like a well rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.

  John Petrucci

  Song, Thinking, Player

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• Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

  Al Di Meola

  Book, Player, Guitar

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• The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

  George Benson

  Player, Guitar, World

  Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.

  Kirk Hammett

  Powerful, Mean, Player

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• I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

  Billy Corgan

  Player, Guitar, Perfect

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• And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

  John Frusciante

  Player, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

  Slash

  Player, Guitar, Half

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• You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrate on the music, focus on what you're playing and let the playing come out. Once you start thinking about doing this or doing that, it's not good. What you are doing is like a language. You have a whole collection of musical ideas and thoughts that you've accumulated through your musical history plus all the musical history of the whole world and it's all in your subconscious and you draw upon it when you play

  Joe Pass

  Thinking, Player, Ideas

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• Listening is the key to everything good in music.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Keys, Guitar

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• There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.

  Jimmy Page

  Passion, Player, Thinking

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• My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

  Lydia Loveless

  Art, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close to having Ed’s [Eddie Van Halen's] fantastic combination of chops and musicianship. I rank him along with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum as one of the three greatest musicians of my lifetime. Unfortunately, I don’t think Ed puts himself in that class.

  Ted Templeman

  Art, Player, Thinking

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• In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.

  Jerry Garcia

  Player, Thinking, Musical

  Source: deadsources.blogspot.com

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• I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

  Bill Frisell

  Player, Guitar, Important

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• My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

  Jonny Lang

  Dad, Good Friend, Player

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• I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

  Colin Hay

  Player, Guitar, Want

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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, Guitar

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• I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.

  Joe Satriani

  Fun, Player, Guitar

  "Shred on Arrival". Guitar World, November 1993.

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• Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

  Mick Taylor

  Player, Guitar, People

  "The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor". www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind of a bit of a musician, but I've often doubted my musical ear. If someone sings me a melody, I have to improvise on that melody, because I can't retain the information they've given me. That's why I still practise today, I suppose, because I still feel inadequate.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Player, Musical, Musician

  Source: thequietus.com

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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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• I would be happy if I could meet some musicians interested in different acoustics and traditional music. Maybe I will find some Native American or Latin tunes. Anything. Even maybe a great heavy metal guitar player or drummer, and we can do something wild together. My next step is making more music without formats or borders. Not just simple songs or doing covers, but music with more ideas. I think it will again be a synthesis with something else.

  Albert Kuvezin

  Song, Latin, Native American

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