Guitar Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

  Daniel Ek

  Acoustics, Really Cool, Headphones

  "Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Talks Royalties, Social and The Future". Interview with Eliot Van Buskirk, evolver.fm. February 10, 2012.

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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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• I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

  Kimbra

  Song, Writing, Kids

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• The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.

  Adam Parfrey

  Class, Space, Filters

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• There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them

  Tommy Shaw

  Towns, Sides, Knows

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• I don't play for the guitarists in the audience.  I play for the musicians.

  Frank Gambale

  Play, Musician, Audience

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• In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform Oh Jean.

  Billy Boyd

  Party, Facts, Wanted

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• It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

  Andy Partridge

  Running, Pain, Play

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• Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.

  T Bone Burnett

  Kids, Conquer The World, Water

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• Women are my hobby... every man needs something to keep his hands busy, and I don't have a guitar like Eddie and Michael, or some drums to bash like Alex, so I have to find some friends.

  Diamond D

  Men, Hands, Hobbies

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• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  Sam Palladio

  Play, Trying, Musician

  "Nashville’s Sam Palladio on the Music, Avoiding TMZ, and Gunnar and Scarlett". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.vulture.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Sports, Clouds

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• If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.

  Steve Vai

  Music, Eye, Play

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• It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

  Alex Van Halen

  Brother, Rooms, Minutes

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• I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

  John Fogerty

  Cheating, Cutting, Thinking

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• I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

  John Frusciante

  Writing, Play, Would Be

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• I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Mean, Musical

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• I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

  Colin Hay

  Player, Want, Guitar Player

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• I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

  Colin Hay

  Mother, Father, Scotland

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• I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

  Colin Greenwood

  Guitarist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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