Guitar Quotes - Page 22

• 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 wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

  Robin Trower

  Feels, Guitarist

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

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Want, Rock N Roll

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• Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

  Waylon Jennings

  Country, Feelings, Banjos

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• Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

  Beck

  Song, Writing, Fire

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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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• My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

  Josh Hartnett

  Dad, Vacation, Play

  "Josh Hartnett On “August”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. July 15.

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• What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

  Delta Goodrem

  Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustics

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• Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Play, Guy

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

  Steve Lawson

  Beautiful, Journey, Ebb And Flow

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• Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.

  Jeff Beck

  Mom, Two, Fads

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• With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

  Leo Kottke

  Teacher, Attitude, Cop

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• I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guy, Endorsements, Dork

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• Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

  Neil Young

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• Bad music can make you weak.

  Ry Cooder

  Weak, Bad Music

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• When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Band

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• Practice like the Devil.

  Doc Watson

  Practice, Devil

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• I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, House

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