Guitar Player Quotes - Page 6

• It's weird - I can listen to a guitar player or a rock record over and over again and really enjoy whatever the guitarist is doing. But when I do it, after 30 seconds or so I get really frustrated and can't understand why I, or anyone else, would want to write songs.

  Kevin Drumm

  Song, Writing, Player

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out. But I've also always loved the technology part of it. I've always loved the studio part. Making albums. Besides writing songs, which has been my primary thing, making records would be second. Obviously, touring would be third. Touring wasn't my favorite thing to do, but the first few tours were pretty fun. Seeing the world and everything.

  Ric Ocasek

  Song, Fun, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.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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• I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

  Jonny Lang

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'm definitely a frustrated musician, though it's more in terms of wishing I was a better guitar player and songwriter. But I've never regretted becoming an actor instead. I think it's been a more pure form of self-expression for me. I luckily found something that I could aspire to be good at, whereas I never... I think I'd never quite reach that level of artist that I enjoy in the music world.

  Cillian Murphy

  Artist, Player, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

  Richie Sambora

  Song, Player, Guitar

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• At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

  Orianthi

  School, Hard Times, Player

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• It hit the damn papers that I was being chased through the woods with dogs and choppers. I mean, who the hell are we after here, John Dillinger? For Chrissakes, I'm just a lowly guitar player.

  Richard Betts

  Dog, Mean, Player

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• I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.

  Daniel Rossen

  Player, Guitar, Piano

  "Grizzly Bear". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Horse, Crazy, Player

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• I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

  George Benson

  Player, Guitar, Giving

  "George Benson Interview From The Noise11.com Archives". Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.

  Wes Borland

  Lying, Player, Guitar

  "Wes Borland: Why he left Limp Bizkit" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 24, 2002.

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• I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

  Wes Borland

  Unique, Player, Guitar

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• My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.

  Bootsy Collins

  Brother, Player, Guitar

  "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.

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• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Player, Guitar

  "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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