Guitar Quotes - Page 23

• My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

  Jonny Lang

  Dad, Good Friend, Player

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• A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

  Willie Dixon

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• I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

  Bill Frisell

  Player, Important, Copying

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• I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close to having Ed’s [Eddie Van Halen's] fantastic combination of chops and musicianship. I rank him along with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum as one of the three greatest musicians of my lifetime. Unfortunately, I don’t think Ed puts himself in that class.

  Ted Templeman

  Art, Player, Thinking

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• I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

  Teena Marie

  Kids, Play, Matter

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• I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

  Brian May

  Achievement, Three, Records

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• No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word of God. And strangely, that's enough. God's Word is enough for millions of believers who gather in house churches... Jungles... Rainforests, and middle-eastern cities. But is his Word enough for us?

  David Platt

  Air, Cities, People

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• Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.

  Gary Snyder

  Names, People, Waiting

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• It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well.  And by that time I was too rich to care.

  Chet Atkins

  Years, Tunes, Care

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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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• Bad music can make you weak.

  Ry Cooder

  Weak, Bad Music

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• We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

  John Scofield

  Messing Up, Want, Vocalist

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• Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

  Frank Zappa

  Feelings

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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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• You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there.

  Freddie Green

  Should, Whole

  "The Guitar Handbook: A Unique Source Book for the Guitar Player - Amateur or Professional, Acoustic or Electrice, Rock, Blues, Jazz, or Folk". Book by Ralph Denyer, 1982.

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• First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.

  Tim Brookes

  First Love, Firsts, Unforgettable

  Tim Brookes (2007). “Guitar: An American Life”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Teacher, Play, Decision

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• If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

  Neil Young

  Would Be, Band, Links

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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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• Link Wray is the all-time legend.

  Conan O'Brien

  Links, Legends, All Time

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• Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next.... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray.

  Pete Townshend

  New York, Mean, Men

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• That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

  Victoria Jackson

  Perfect, Fantasy, Shows

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