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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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, Guitar

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• I bet a chef could get more pussy than a guitar player right now.

  Roy Choi

  Player, Guitar, Pussy

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• Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the Carrabian. I have a little house there where I spend two months listening to music, no playing because I don't bring the guitar with me, fishing and cooking my fish and charging the batteries for new concerts.

  Paco de Lucia

  Player, August, Fishing

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• My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

  Billy Corgan

  Father, Player, Guitar

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• The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

  Ian Anderson

  Player, Guitar, Numbers

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• A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

  Hunter Hayes

  Player, Thinking, Bass Guitar

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• My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Uncles, Player

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• I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

  John Mayer

  Player, Guitar, Singers

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• I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

  Larry Carlton

  Running, Player, Ideas

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• I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

  Rick Springfield

  Player, Guitar

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• Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

  Joe Perry

  Player, Guitar, Sound

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