Guitar Quotes - Page 15

• When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

  Les Paul

  Firsts, Bigs, Strings

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• I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Journey, Rolling, Different

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• Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Boys, Player, Small Hands

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Car, Bass, Fit

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• My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Firsts

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• I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.

  Evel Knievel

  Redneck, Mph, Play

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.

  John Sebastian

  Guy, Trying, Sound

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• I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

  Robert Quine

  Fighting, Thinking, Generations

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• When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

  Michael Storm

  Rage, Banjos, Folks

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• Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

  Brownie McGhee

  Running, Song, Singers

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• I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

  Scott Putesky

  Nine, Collecting

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• Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

  Charley Pride

  Player, Guitar Player

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• As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

  Brad Paisley

  Song, Writing, Player

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

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• They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

  Wallace Stevens

  Men, Play, Blue

  'The Man with the Blue Guitar' (1937)

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• After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

  Kirk Hammett

  Brother, Stars, Air Guitar

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• I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

  Adrian Belew

  Sound, Able, Left

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• I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

  James Taylor

  Writing, Guitar Music, Wander

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

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• Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

  Andres Segovia

  Dog, Taken, Men

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• I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

  Gregory Harrison

  Song, Play, Age

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• Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

  Mark Ronson

  Machines, Stuff, Computer

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• It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something. So it's nice to just concentrate on it one hundred percent and give your all to it.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Nice, Shopping, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

  Sammy Hagar

  Player, Singers, Gamer

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• T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

  Johnny Winter

  Player, Gamer, Influence

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• I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music

  Doc Watson

  First Love, Firsts, Banjos

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• I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

  Trevor Rabin

  Instruments

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