Guitar Quotes - Page 35

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

  Delta Goodrem

  Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustics

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• I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

  B. B. King

  Believe, Heart, Player

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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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• Life is too short to play bad music

  Bob Brozman

  Life Is Too Short, Play, 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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• We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Half

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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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• 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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• 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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• For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Song, Were Not Meant To Be, Keyboards

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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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• Rumble is the best instrumental ever.

  Bob Dylan

  Rumble

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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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