Guitar Player Quotes - Page 4

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

  Joe Perry

  Player, Guitar, Sound

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

  Kirk Hammett

  Player, Guitar, Technique

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• I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

  Rick Springfield

  Player, Guitar

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• Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Teenager, Player, Guitar

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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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• 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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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Another guitar player who had a tremendous influence on my life was Howard Roberts ... I'd listened to a lot of Tal Farlow, Johnny Smith and Kenny Burrell, and I was certainly into those guys, but I was awestruck at the intensity and fire in Howards' guitar playing... for me, it became a roadmap.

  Jeff Baxter

  Music, Player, Fire

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• People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).

  Larry Carlton

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• .. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Cat, Player

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• Shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes .. she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that.

  Sam Andrew

  Music, Song, Real

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• There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

  Shannon Hoon

  Player, Keys, Rocks

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• 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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• My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

  Brian Setzer

  Player, Guitar, Jazz

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