Guitar Quotes - Page 11

• I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

  Alexis Korner

  Hurt, Play, Able

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• It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

  Gary Burton

  Artist, Player, Musician

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• Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

  Zakk Wylde

  Time, Beer, Play

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• At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

  Scott Ian

  Brother, Thinking, Issues

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• Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.

  Bobby Womack

  Love, Guy, Trying

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• Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

  Michael Stipe

  Stars, Sick, Peter

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• So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

  Catie Curtis

  Writing, Eight, Interesting

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• Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

  Scott Putesky

  Play, Yamaha, Seems

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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, Average

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• There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

  Andy Summers

  College, Periods, Wanted

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• I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

  Julian Bream

  Player, Practice, Two

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• I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

  Bill Mumy

  Finding The One, House, Steps

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• I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

  Gary Oldman

  Would Be, Fetch, Faces

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• I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

  Kip Winger

  Fun, Hands, Black

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• We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

  Gary Allan

  Whiskey, Feds, Barbecue

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• I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

  Lita Ford

  Thinking, Singers, Hanging On

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• My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

  Jeremy London

  Brother, Play, Excellent

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• I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff

  Jason Schwartzman

  Mean, Shopping, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

  Adrian Belew

  Years, Secret, Magazines

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• A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

  Robin Trower

  Important, Scream, Wells

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• Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

  Rick Springfield

  School, Use, Puberty

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• I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

  Jam Master Jay

  Drummer

  "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.

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• I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

  Graham Coxon

  Lovely, Littles, Festivals

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• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way

  Dan Fogelberg

  Dad, Looks, Way

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• The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Character, Men, Piano

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