Guitarist Quotes - Page 3

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  If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Funny, Inspiring, Substance

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• I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Band

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• Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

  Kenny Burrell

  Brilliant, Young, Composer

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• How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of singer guitarist who in the standard PR band head shot looks like she wouldn't hurt a fly; yet give her a guitar, a Marshall stack and a mic and stand back, way back. She shreds. File under - Do Not Overlook and Go Tell Your Friends

  Dave Allen

  Hurt, Guitar, Giving

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• Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Fake People, Peace

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• When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

  John McLaughlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Musician

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• The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

  Manuel de Falla

  Art, Guitar, Effort

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• Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Average, Play

  Guitar Player, Volume 7, 1973.

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• Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'

  Angus Young

  Fashion, Guitar, Should Have

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• I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

  Eric Clapton

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

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• I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

  Mike Dirnt

  Doe, Bass, Reason

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• I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.

  Joe Satriani

  Funny, Inspiring, Neurosis

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• I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.

  Joe Satriani

  Funny, Inspiring, Song

  BAM Magazine, April 06, 1990.

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• The most powerful music is music with purpose.

  Tom Morello

  Funny, Inspiring, Powerful

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• Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.

  Tom Morello

  Funny, Inspiring, Choices

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• The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity

  Joe Perry

  Music, Play, People

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• There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

  George Benson

  Music, Kenny

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• Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail off, he was a heck of an arranger and could out-read anybody.

  Larry Coryell

  Music, Guitar, Imagination

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• There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them

  Tommy Shaw

  Guitar, Towns, Sides

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• I don't play for the guitarists in the audience.  I play for the musicians.

  Frank Gambale

  Guitar, Play, Musician

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• Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

  Brian Jones

  Music, Hendrix, Exciting

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

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• ... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

  Robben Ford

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• As a kid, image played a huge part. I'm sure most kids find the image of the guitarist exciting.

  Kevin Drumm

  Kids, Exciting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).

  Larry Carlton

  Music, Player, Guitar

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