Guitar Quotes - Page 21

• Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

  Mick Taylor

  Player, People, Males

  "The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor". www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the Blues, Gary brings his vocation as a New Testament teacher together with his passion for the blues and gives the reader scholarly knowledge and wise insight.

  Steve Stockman

  Wise, Teacher, Book

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• After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Boys, Want, Guitarist

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• With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

  Jeff Ament

  Play, Jam, Pearls

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• I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.

  Andy Griffith

  Years, Tv Shows, Play

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

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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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• My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

  Carl Perkins

  Dad, Firsts, Chickens

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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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• If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Mistake, Arrangements, Ifs

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• Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

  Gary Lucas

  Moving, Emotional, Hands

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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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• Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

  James Hetfield

  Funny, Feelings, Standing

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• Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'

  Trent Reznor

  Girlfriend, People, Should

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• Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.

  Frank Zappa

  Ideas, Earth, Faces

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• I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

  Kurt Cobain

  Years, Sound, Lasts

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• I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

  Hugh Jackman

  Piano, Favour

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• I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

  Joe Pass

  Player, Copying, Remember

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• All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Want, Rock N Roll

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• I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very much the enemy. And I don't think that's true. Tension is a good thing. To be pulled tight: that's the only way you can make a proper noise on the guitar or violin.

  Jon Foreman

  Pain, Thinking, Enemy

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• Every guitar has a personality.

  Jol Dantzig

  Personality

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• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Song, Falling In Love, Heart

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