Guitar Quotes - Page 20

• There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.

  Keith Richards

  Attitude, Play, Style

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• The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of the fiddle, harp and guitar, complemented by an otherworldly voice. To top it off, she comes across as a truly natural and relaxed, people loving performer.

  Jim Sinclair

  Voice, People, Jaw Dropping

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• If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

  Cliff Richard

  Regret, Play, May

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• Rumble is the best instrumental ever.

  Bob Dylan

  Rumble

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• Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

  Neil Young

  Links, Way, Grunge

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• At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

  Muddy Waters

  Country, Night, House

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• I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings

  Macklemore

  Writing, Play, Beats

  Song: The Town, Album: The Unplanned Mixtape, 2009

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• A man can’t have too many guitars or too many shotguns.

  Robert Earl Keen

  Men, Weapons, Shotguns

  "Guitar Whispering". Interview with John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. November 16, 2009.

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• When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.

  Gabor Szabo

  Music, Play, Feelings

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• I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

  Glenn Hughes

  Mom, Rocks, Years

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• I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar

  Stephen Stills

  Mean, Play, Feels

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• As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Style, Easy

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• I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.

  Frederick Franck

  Artist, Hands, Alive

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• We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.

  Kurt Cobain

  Play, People, Tunes

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• I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

  Brian Molko

  Girl, New York, Tired

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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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• Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Son, Cds, Two

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Play, Challenges

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Ralph Denyer, p. 102, 2002.

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• Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

  Link Wray

  Money, Records, Company

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• Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

  Dan Auerbach

  Play, Hell, Solo

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• A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

  B. B. King

  Music, Old Friends

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• Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

  John Fogerty

  Music, Journey, Finished

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• Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Pants, Electric

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• When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

  Les Paul

  Too Much, Picks

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• I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.

  John Fogerty

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

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