Guitar Quotes - Page 40

• I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.

  Buddy Guy

  Baseball, Divorce, Years

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• The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself.

  Pepe Romero

  Inspirational, Finding Love, Tools

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• I would think that the drumstick is probably pretty good. Because you can put that anywhere. If you are a strong guy, you can put it in the throat, the nose, the mouth, the ear. It's also easily concealed. The guitar is pretty good, but you have to break it. And that's pretty difficult.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Strong, Thinking, Guy

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I always call myself a "student" of the guitar.

  Nick Offerman

  Students

  Interview with Chris Baio, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

  Dave Grohl

  Long, Firsts, Band

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Practice, Acoustics

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  Records, Seven, Made

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.

  Kaitlyn Dever

  Song, Writing, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature.

  Courtney Love

  Males, Attention, Band

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to be able to sit in a room with a guitar and play the song from beginning to end and have it be as impactful as if you heard the studio version with all the bells and whistles.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Song, Writing, Play

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it by cargo because it's dangerous. There is no way I would do that.

  Juanes

  Hands, Way, Cargo

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• With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

  Paco de Lucia

  Suffering, Good Times, Worthwhile

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• It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Crazy, Want

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Play, Instruments, Electric

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.

  Chaz Bundick

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band and I are proud to be a part. It's going to be a Guitar Guru Gala of Gargantuan proportions. For me personally, it will simply be the Greatest! So, see you at one of the dates on the tour. Believe me, this is not one you want to miss. All I can say is Get Ready To Rock'n'Roll!!!

  Edgar Winter

  Believe, Rocks, Years

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• Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

  Julian Lennon

  Dad, School, Kids

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.

  Tom DeLonge

  Writing, Rocks, Play

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• When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

  Pete Seeger

  Play, Tunes, Half

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• My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Real, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Interview with Dermot Stokes, Hot Press, March 1978.

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• I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Hands, Play

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Alastair M. Crawford, Isaac Guillory, and Ralph Denyer, 1982.

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• When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Acoustics

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• For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.

  Martin Gore

  Moving, Night, Years

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• I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

  Matt Ross

  Kids, Littles, Musician

  Source: collider.com

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