Guitar Quotes - Page 37

• Really young kids are into guitars.

  Charlie Simpson

  Kids, Young

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• One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.

  Frank Stallone

  Night, Voice, Singing

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• Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

  Hal Sparks

  Play, Frustrated, Sometimes

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• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

  Hal Sparks

  Player, Focus, Trying

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• With all his greatness and accomplishments on the guitar, Dime will be missed more for his giving personality, charisma, caring for others, love and most of all his heart. Twice as big as the state of Texas. Dime gave it all every day to each and every one of us and our lives have forever been hollowed without him… Thanks to all of you for reaching out to us in this time of our immeasurable loss. Rest in peace brother Dime.

  Vinnie Paul

  Brother, Rest In Peace, Heart

  "Damageplan Drummer Issues Statement". www.nme.com. December 11, 2004.

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• Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

  Jeff Lynne

  Play, Piano, Bass

  "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

  Jonny Lang

  Artist, Long, Firsts

  "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.

  Sissy Spacek

  Home, Support, Leaving

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• Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar.

  Miles Teller

  Party, School, Redneck

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

  Ryan Tedder

  Thinking, Hook, Turns

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• I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

  Kate Voegele

  Song, Art, Kings

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• I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

  Bobby Vinton

  School, Blue, Play

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• I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

  Michael Weatherly

  Girl, Team, School

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• I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.

  Angus Young

  Believe, Play, Creating

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• I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.

  Angus Young

  Running, School, Kids

  "Q & A With Angus Young of AC/DC". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on them. I mean, I'd heard of them, but I wasn't up on their music. And I kept listening to Radiohead, and I was like, Man, I want to make hip-hop that feels like Radiohead. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together.

  Will Ferrell

  Mean, Men, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.

  Will Ferrell

  Hip Hop, Soul, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

  Ryan Adams

  Different, Attention, Earth

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• I'm not a big fan of guitar face. You know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and... they look you in the eye and it's really humiliating. You know some people have that really embarrassing guitar face? I remember thinking about this when I was doing the DJing, because... you do have to focus, and that's what happens, it's your focus face. But you're in a movie, so you should probably lock it up.

  Lucas Till

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.

  Sheryl Crow

  Song, Nashville, Careers

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• When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Pieces, Storytelling, Melody

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• I sing a bit and play guitar.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Play, Bits

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• In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

  Don McLean

  Jobs, School, Autumn

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• I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

  Don McLean

  Fun, Real, Teenager

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• I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

  Don McLean

  Play, Family And Friends, World

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