Guitar Playing Quotes

• Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Play, African American

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• If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

  Joe Pass

  Inspirational, Music, Guitar

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• We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

  B. B. King

  Music, Being Yourself, Guitar

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  The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Music, Sacrifice

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• So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Brother, Guitar, Trying

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• I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

  John Lee Hooker

  Mean, Guitar Music, Play

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• The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

  Lou Reed

  Guitar, Play, Important

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• Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

  J.J. Cale

  Player, Guitar, Littles

  "JJ Cale, songwriter behind Cocaine and After Midnight, dies aged 74" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• Another guitar player who had a tremendous influence on my life was Howard Roberts ... I'd listened to a lot of Tal Farlow, Johnny Smith and Kenny Burrell, and I was certainly into those guys, but I was awestruck at the intensity and fire in Howards' guitar playing... for me, it became a roadmap.

  Jeff Baxter

  Music, Player, Fire

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• The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

  Robert Smith

  Guitar, Fans, Rolling

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• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Song, Falling In Love, Heart

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• Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.

  Gary Snyder

  Guitar, Names, People

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• Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Guitar, Mad

  Rolling Stone Magazine, December 1970.

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• Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

  Lee Ritenour

  Guitar, Way, Stamps

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• I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

  Bryan White

  Country, Heart, Artist

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• My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

  Joel Plaskett

  Dad, Guitar, Influence

  Source: noisey.vice.com

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• When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

  John Frusciante

  Spiritual, Guitar, Intellectual

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• I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

  St. Vincent

  Girl, Dirty, Mean

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• Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

  Brad Paisley

  Guitar, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

  Dave Mustaine

  Growing Up, Pain, Anger

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• Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Guitar, Bounds

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• Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

  George Thorogood

  Girl, Song, Guitar

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• I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Mean, Guitar

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