Guitar Quotes - Page 2

• Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Fake People, Peace

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• When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Drunk, Singers

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• Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that sounded good when played it ... and he cared nothing about the collectibility of an instrument ... his philosophy was "A good player can make any guitar sound good" ... to Michael, a guitar was just a tool.

  Nick Gravenites

  Music, Philosophy, Player

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• Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.

  Jay Lake

  Sex, Writing, Self

  Interview with Patrick Wolohan, www.sfsignal.com. August 24, 2009.

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• All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Song, Writing, Years

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• What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

  Faye Kellerman

  Differences, Four, Pizza

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• Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

  Taryn Manning

  Singing, Acting, Alive

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• My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

  Bob Dylan

  Tunes, Bigs

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• [Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.

  T Bone Burnett

  People, Bob, Controversial

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

  Billy Bragg

  Believe, Opportunity, Player

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• From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

  Jason Hicks

  Music, Morse Code, Solo

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• People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).

  Larry Carlton

  Music, Player, People

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• I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Chasing, Intuitive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

  Michael Bamberger

  Golf, Tennis, Balls

  Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

  Ice T

  Rap, Rocks, Buttons

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Voice, People, Ears

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

  Lou Reed

  Bass, Beats, Drum And Bass

  Liner notes of "New York", studio album by Lou Reed, January 10, 1989.

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• I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.

  J. K. Rowling

  Crush, Real, Sucker

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

  Andres Segovia

  Inspirational, Music, Play

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• The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Media, Looks

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• So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Cutting, Bridges, Wire

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• Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

  Thom Yorke

  Looks, Sometimes, Things To Do

  "Radiohead's 'The Bends,' 20 Years Later: Reexamining a Modern Rock Masterpiece". www.guitarworld.com. May 15, 2015.

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• I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.

  Geddy Lee

  Song, Play, Bass

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• But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life.

  Peter Frampton

  Art, Play, Band

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.

  Bruno Mars

  Hate, Doe, Wrecks

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