Guitar Quotes - Page 26

• You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

  Don Felder

  Music, Memorable, Interesting

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• I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

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• It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

  Marty Stuart

  Gun, Rocks, Littles

  Song: Hillbilly Rock, Album: Hillbilly Rock

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• Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.

  Frank Zappa

  Light, Ovation, Looks

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah. I started using them [SDD-3000s] shortly after first working with Edge on The Unforgettable Fire. Basically, I stole his sound. It wasn't a complicated rig: just a guitar he liked through a Korg SDD-3000 digital delay into a Vox. Three components, mono - that's it. The great thing about the Korgs is its three-position level switch, which lets you hit the amp with about 10 extra dB. It's more overdriven than if you just plugged the guitar straight into the amp, even when it's on bypass. But a lot of the guitar sounds on Achtung Baby were recorded through a Korg A3 effects processor.

  Daniel Lanois

  Baby, Fire, Delay

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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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• Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

  Alex Chilton

  Lonely, Stars, Nice

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• There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

  Jim Croce

  Simplicity, Age, Acoustics

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• I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

  Cat Stevens

  Thinking, Use, Folks

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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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• All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

  Guy Clark

  Nylon, Firsts, Kind

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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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• 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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