Guitar Quotes - Page 32

• I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

  Brian Molko

  Girl, New York, Tired

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• I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

  St. Vincent

  Girl, Dirty, Mean

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• A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

  Edie Brickell

  Beautiful, Song, Dirty

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• Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Son, Cds, Two

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

  Cliff Richard

  Regret, Play, May

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• I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Moving, Feel Good, Musician

  "Hot Tracks: Gary Clark Jr". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. December 2012.

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• I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Play, Challenges

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Ralph Denyer, p. 102, 2002.

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• At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

  Muddy Waters

  Country, Night, House

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• My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

  Carl Perkins

  Dad, Firsts, Chickens

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• Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

  John Lennon

  Rocks, Two, Links

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• Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

  Link Wray

  Money, Records, Company

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• Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

  Dan Auerbach

  Play, Hell, Solo

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• If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Mistake, Arrangements, Ifs

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• When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Hip Hop, Sublime, Radio

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• Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

  Gary Lucas

  Moving, Emotional, Hands

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• A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

  B. B. King

  Music, Old Friends

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• Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

  John Fogerty

  Music, Journey, Finished

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• Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Pants, Electric

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• When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

  Les Paul

  Too Much, Picks

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• There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.

  Keith Richards

  Attitude, Play, Style

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• I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.

  John Fogerty

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

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• Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

  James Hetfield

  Funny, Feelings, Standing

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• Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

  Etta James

  Country, Teenager, Night

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• Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'

  Trent Reznor

  Girlfriend, People, Should

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• Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.

  Frank Zappa

  Ideas, Earth, Faces

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