Guitarist Quotes - Page 5

• Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.

  Jimmy Page

  Years, Play, Feelings

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• I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.

  Jimmy Page

  Two, Needed

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• When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

  Jimmy Page

  States, Bloody

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• Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

  Barney Kessel

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

  Joe Pass

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Brother, Django

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• Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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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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• I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

  King Krule

  Uncles, Lines, Rhythm

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

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• Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.

  John Maus

  Musical, Enthusiasm, Vacuous

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.

  Nikki Sixx

  New York, Father, Hero

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• Going onstage without my primary instrument is like being a guitarist and going up onstage with no guitar waiting for you. What do you do? That's why performance is painful for me, because I feel like I am always in a strange place with a bit of a handicap.

  Son Lux

  Guitar, Strange Places, Waiting

  "Son Lux Lights Up". Interview with Frank Valish, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 4, 2013.

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• I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.

  Vinnie Vincent

  Kissing, Thinking, Magic

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• I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Numbers, Twenties, Band

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• I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

  Lou Doillon

  Writing, Guitar, Acoustics

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• We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times.

  Rex Smith

  Crazy, Real, Fighting

  "New again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• The reality is each new day and each project is another opportunity to learn, experiment and try something I haven't done before. I've found that's what keeps me motivated and moving forward - learning new things and challenging myself on a daily basis to improve as a composer, recording engineer, percussionist, guitarist, producer...the list goes on and on!

  Jason Graves

  Moving Forward, Opportunity, Reality

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• I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is.

  Jimmy Page

  Strong, Believe, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.

  Jimmy Page

  Guitar, Friendly, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

  Alvin Lee

  Thinking, Guitar, Modern

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• It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

  Alvin Lee

  Christian, Guitar, Play

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• But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

  John Fahey

  Guitar, Important, World

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• I remember going foraging for breakfast in St. Louis once. I saw this one girl sitting in front of the venue, and she made this pink T-shirt with a big heart in the middle of it and a misty picture of our guitarist Mark [Potter]. She was so embarrassed when she saw me. And I was trying desperately not to laugh.

  Guy Garvey

  Girl, Heart, Laughing

  Source: www.spin.com

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• The harmonic effects produced unconsciously by our guitarists are one of the miracles of natural art.

  Manuel de Falla

  Art, Miracle, Natural

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• The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.

  Andrew S. Gilbert

  Home, Musical, Musician

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