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• There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

  Scott Stapp

  Moving, Player, One Direction

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• My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

  George Benson

  Player, Guitar, Careers

  Interview with Edina Patsy, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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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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• But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

  Krist Novoselic

  Player, Guitar, Dimes

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• The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar a couple of years ago but it is because of their innovative spirit and dedication to the art of guitar building that it is now a reality. I am so grateful that I am able to collaborate with the best guitar company on the planet and so incredibly proud that together we have created what is to me, the perfect musical instrument for guitar players. I really hope you get a chance to play one and am confident that you will feel the same!

  John Petrucci

  Art, Couple, Grateful

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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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• I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

  Lee DeWyze

  Player, Guitar, Unorthodox

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• Once we get out on the road, my tour manager who is also my guitar player does a great job of taking weight off of my shoulders where I can just focus on playing the shows.About two hours before every show, the pacing starts and the anticipation builds. I prepare for it just like I would when I used ride bulls, slap yourself in the face, wake yourself up and get your heart going.

  Cody Johnson

  Jobs, Heart, Player

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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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• 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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• My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

  Brian May

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.

  Robin Trower

  Player, Guitar, Feelings

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• Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.

  Henry Rollins

  Player, Guitar, Fans

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• ... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

  Jeff Beck

  Player, Django, Guitar

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• I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.

  Duncan Sheik

  Song, Fun, Moon

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• When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.

  Meredith Brooks

  Kids, Player, Guitar

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• Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

  John Frusciante

  Player, Guitar

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.

  Bert Jansch

  Song, Thinking, Player

  Interview with Robin Cook, www.furious.com. December 2006.

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