Guitar Quotes - Page 39

• I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

  Alan Arkin

  Couple, Groups, Underwear

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2006.

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• There's just no stopping those girls with guitars.

  Wynonna Judd

  Girl, Stopping

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• But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .

  Neil Diamond

  Humming

  Song: Cracklin' Rosie, Album: Tap Root Manuscript, 1970

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• He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

  Chuck Berry

  Play, Bells

  Song: Johnny B. Goode

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• My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Cadillacs, Hanging On, Hillbilly

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• I want a thousand guitars . . .

  Bruce Springsteen

  Want, Thousand

  Song: Radio Nowhere, Album: Magic, 2007

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• I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

  Nathan East

  Music, Grateful, Wave Of Life

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• That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Woods, Faces

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• I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

  Brian May

  Music, Play, Brain

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• It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

  Steve Morse

  Music, Pieces, Chance

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• So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

  Steve Vai

  Music, Light, Challenges

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• Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

  Nile Rodgers

  Music, Real, Records

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• I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

  Ronnie Montrose

  California, Southern, Records

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• So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

  Steve Forbert

  Moving, Thinking, Feet

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• I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

  Mark Knopfler

  Play, Bass, Stuff

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• There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

  Rick Derringer

  Country, White, Guy

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• As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

  Richie Sambora

  Song, Player, Listening

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• Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

  Eric Clapton

  Funny, Play, Giving

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• Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

  Roy Wood

  Song, Writing, Mind

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• So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Thinking, Long

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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• Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

  Paul Westerberg

  Music, Mom, Dad

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• Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Mad, Genius

  Rolling Stone Magazine, December 1970.

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• It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

  Tom Chapin

  Love, Believe, Age

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• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee and we had The Mountain Opry, where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  Rachel Boston

  Love, Heart, Ukulele

  "5 Questions with Rachel Boston". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. April 19, 2013.

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• There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

  John Fogerty

  Player, Guy, Trying

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