Guitar Player Quotes - Page 9

• I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!

  Les Paul

  Player, Guitar, Six

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• When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

  Gary Hoey

  Hard Work, Player, Jumping

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• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Lying, Hate, Moving

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• The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think... ahh, I've heard that lick before.

  Tom Verlaine

  Player, Thinking, Rocks

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• Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.

  George Harrison

  Player, Guitar, Guy

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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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• Steve Fister is a great guitar player. He's ROCKIN'!!

  Walter Trout

  Player, Guitar

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• Being a professional wrestler was never one of my goals in life. I always wanted to be some kind of entertainer. I used to want to be a rock singer or a guitar player but I can't sing and I can't play the guitar.

  Ric Savage

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.

  Keith Richards

  Nice, Simple, Player

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Ralph Denyer, 2002.

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• I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

  Steve Vai

  Workout, Player, Guitar

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• Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

  Donald Dunn

  Player, Guitar, Bass

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• I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

  Rick Nielsen

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Mean, Player

  "Zooey Deschanel Can Play the Ukulele". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it.

  Chad Channing

  Song, Player, Guitar

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• My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

  David Gilmour

  Player, Guitar, Style

  Sounds: Guitar Heroes magazine, May 1983.

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• David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

  Dave Mustaine

  Player, Guitar, Notes

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• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

  Hal Sparks

  Player, Guitar, Focus

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• I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.

  Scotty Moore

  Country, Good Friend, Player

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• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  Gary Cherone

  Player, Guitar, Voice

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• Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

  Phil Lesh

  Grateful, Player, Guitar

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• Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

  Richard Hawley

  Player, Guitar, Records

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• I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

  Guy Clark

  Player, Guitar, Years

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• I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Song, Mean, Player

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• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  James Iha

  Song, Writing, Player

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