Guitar Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

  Violeta Parra

  Hate, Writing, Blow

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• Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

  Lee Smolin

  Words Of Wisdom, Ordinary, Different

  Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.65, Oxford University Press, USA

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• And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

  Pat Metheny

  Mind, Pieces, Jazz

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• A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

  Wes Montgomery

  Cutting, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I smash guitars because I like them.

  Pete Townshend

  Funny, Music, Funny Music

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• I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!

  Joe Perry

  Play, Needs, Speak

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• I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

  Zacky Vengeance

  Wiggling, Strings, Fingers

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• My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

  Chris Isaak

  Records, Strings, Expenses

  "Q&A WITH CHRIS ISAAK : So '60s Square, So '90s Cool". Interview with Jean Rosenbluth, articles.latimes.com. April 21, 1993.

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• I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's perennial second-place air guitar champion. Whoever this Dan Crane might be, he's captured the mad, seductive spirit of the arbitrary skill contest perfectly, and rocks it hard into the hot Finnish night. There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.

  John Hodgman

  Perseverance, Player, Night

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• I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

  Jerry Reed

  Years, Thankfulness, Proud

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• Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

  Hesiod

  Barns, Literature, Curvy Women

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• To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

  Jessica Hische

  Creativity, Artist, Player

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• I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

  Shawn Colvin

  Two, Singing, Singers

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• But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

  Terry Kath

  Believe, Cat, Men

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• I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

  Dave Mustaine

  Growing Up, Pain, Anger

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• A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

  Richie Sambora

  Men, Sunglasses, Pairs

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• I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Students, Married, Broke

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• I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Acoustics, Range, Subtlety

  Interview With James Jensen, everon.50megs.com.

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• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

  Dan Fogelberg

  Girl, Dancing, Tree

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• The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

  Manuel de Falla

  Art, Effort, Natural

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• You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person - writing a song that moves people is worth more than all the other nonsense. (Just look at Bob Dylan - he's got almost no vocal range at all, but his songs are deeply moving and iconic.) If I had to offer one piece of advice: Write a song that moves people, and write it from within yourself. Your personal narrative is more engaging and moving than anything else you can imagine in your mind.

  Ryan Ross

  Song, Moving, Writing

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