Guitar Player Quotes - Page 3

• When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !

  Richard Betts

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip.

  Henry Garza

  Music, Being Yourself, Rip

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• It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

  Sammy Hagar

  Player, Guitar, Guy

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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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• 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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• Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.

  Steve Vai

  Art, Player, Guitar

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

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• I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

  Steven Tyler

  New York, Fighting, Player

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• Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

  J.J. Cale

  Player, Guitar, Littles

  "JJ Cale, songwriter behind Cocaine and After Midnight, dies aged 74" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

  Rick Springfield

  Player, Guitar

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

  Joe Perry

  Player, Guitar, Sound

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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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• Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

  Kirk Hammett

  Player, Guitar, Technique

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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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• I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Father, Player, Guitar

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• I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.

  Paul Weller

  Player, Guitar, Recognition

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

  Steve Vai

  Player, Emotional, 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 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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• It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a while, I lived on his sofa for a while. And he's a professional guitar player, and he played for One Direction. And so I'd wake up on a sofa sometimes with Harry from One Direction on the other sofa, and I'd kind of be like 'you alright?'

  Ed Sheeran

  Good Friend, Player, One Direction

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• A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

  Frank Gambale

  Player, Thinking, People

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