Guitar Player Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

  Scott Ian

  Player, Guitar, Feel Good

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• I'll never be the best guitar player.

  Chad Kroeger

  Player, Guitar, Being The Best

  "Nickelback's Chad Kroeger has high expectations". Associated Press Interview, chronicle.augusta.com. October 4, 2005.

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• I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

  Chuck Lorre

  Player, Guitar, Television

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

  Krist Novoselic

  Player, Guitar, Dimes

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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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• When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Player, Thinking

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• One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.

  Rory Gallagher

  Player, Guitar, Ideas

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• I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

  Little Richard

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

  Joe Pass

  Player, Guitar, Copying

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• I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

  B. B. King

  Believe, Heart, Player

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• I was a guitar player first off.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Guitar, Firsts

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• I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

  Rick Derringer

  Player, Guitar, People

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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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• 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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• In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

  Krist Novoselic

  Beautiful, Art, Player

  "Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". "All Songs Considered" with Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

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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 only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

  Jason Aldean

  Teacher, Dad, Player

  "A-T web exclusive interview with Jason Aldean". A-T Interview, www.audio-technica.com.

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• I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.

  John Mayer

  Couple, Player, Guitar

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• I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

  John Towner Williams

  Player, People, Way

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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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• If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Player, Guitar, Japan

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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