Guitar Quotes - Page 13

• I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

  Evan Dando

  Lying, Thinking, Play

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• I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

  James Hetfield

  Beer, Boat

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• That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar

  Tom Araya

  Song, Play, Together

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• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  Adam Jones

  Player, Band, Bass

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• I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

  Trevor Dunn

  Different, Bass, Knows

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• I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

  Mick Mars

  Thinking, Rocks, Lessons

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• I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

  Don Johnson

  Writing, Play, Hell

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• While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

  Robin Trower

  Studios, Only Time

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• Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

  Guy Clark

  Texas, Mexican, Done

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• But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

  Mike McCready

  Kissing, Kiss Me, Inspired

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• Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

  Andy Gibb

  Song, Redneck, Play

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• I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

  Andy Summers

  Police, Trying, Keyboards

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• In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

  Colin Greenwood

  Moving, Tone, Computer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

  Elvis Costello

  Kids, Two, Advertising Business

  "Elvis Costello plays with words and praises" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2002.

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• Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

  Glenn Frey

  I've Learned, Chords, Values

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• And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

  James Iha

  Player, Records, Able

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• But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

  Charlie Hunter

  Player, Needs, Stuff

  "Charlie Hunter: Living The Music". Interview with Paul Olson, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 26, 2005.

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• Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Time, Couple, Dad

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• I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

  Chris Hadfield

  Thinking, Space, Floating

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• Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

  Tony Visconti

  Europe, People, Band

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• I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

  Suzi Quatro

  Writing, Piano, Percussion

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• James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Play, Reason, Brown

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• Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

  Steve Vai

  Being In Love, Player, Fans

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

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• It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

  Stevie Nicks

  Birthday, Mom, Song

  "A Three-Way with Stevies Williams, Nicks, and Wonder". Interview with Brayden Olson, www.vice.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

  Pete Townshend

  Years, Weapons, I Realized

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