Guitar Player Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.

  Paul Banks

  Writing, Player, Guitar

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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• we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

  Gene Tierney

  Jobs, Player, Brass Bands

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players

  Walter Trout

  Player, Guitar, Slim

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• I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Player, Guitar

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.

  Nikki Sixx

  Player, Guitar, Lines

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Guitar, Female

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• Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it's counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me.

  Cody Johnson

  Player, Guitar, Lines

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• You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.

  Gail Zappa

  Commitment, Player, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Guitar, Half

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Guitar, Chasing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play.

  Jill Sobule

  Brother, School, Player

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!

  Kelly Hogan

  Player, Guitar, Color

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

  Loren Mazzacane Connors

  Simple, Player, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

  Doug Martsch

  Nice, Player, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

  Zach Condon

  Dad, Player, Guitar

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

  Joe Perry

  Country, Player, Rocks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.

  John Petrucci

  Player, Guitar, Listening

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.

  John Petrucci

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

  Ronnie Wood

  Sleep, Good Friend, Player

  "Musicians, actors and celebrities react to news of Prince's death", www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.

  Alice Cooper

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• I think it's a good way to sort of build your career and even when I was a young kid, I did the same thing, I looked at these guitar players, like ...I was a big fan of Steve Vai, and Al DiMeola, and said "What do those guys do?" and I found out that they went to Berkelee College of music, so I was like "Well, I'm going to go to Berkelee College of Music", and you try to, like, learn from those things, so... It's important.

  John Petrucci

  Kids, Player, College

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• You might pick up some influences from another type of music that you wouldn't normally think of, but, you know, maybe as a guitar player, it will come out in your improvisational style, maybe as a song writer it might come out in your note choices, or in your melodic choices, and it just helps to making your music that much more original and unique.

  John Petrucci

  Song, Unique, Player

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.

  Bruno Mars

  Player, Guitar, Talking

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.

  Zach Condon

  Brother, Memories, Dad

  Source: pitchfork.com

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