Guitarist Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.

  Beth Orton

  Writing, Scratches, Taught

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Giuseppe Continenza is a monster guitarist

  Gene Bertoncini

  Monsters

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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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• An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.

  Ted Nugent

  Play, Technique, Berries

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• I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

  Steven Price

  Piano, House, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• I started out in a heavy metal band with a guy who could really play guitar, and I thought the only thing missing from Guided By Voices was a lead guitarist. In the early days, I would bring people in just to play leads, like Greg Demos and Steve Wilbur.

  Robert Pollard

  Guitar, Play, Voice

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• There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

  Marnie Stern

  Mean, Player, Guitar

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

  George Benson

  Funny, Inspiring, Teacher

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• I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

  Dave Edmunds

  Guitar, Way, Compliment

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• I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

  Sam Palladio

  Self, Trying, Together

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• During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.

  Geezer Butler

  Style, Black, Horizon

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• I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

  Boy George

  Good Friend, My Best Friend, Wow

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad in the back of a free paper seeking a guitarist, bassist, and drummer just looking to jam.

  Dallas Clayton

  Lonely, Cheer, Paper

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• A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Running, Play, Training

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• [Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist

  Jon Pareles

  Fun, Musician, Amor

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• There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.

  Paul Simon

  Play, Sound, Doe

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

  James Stewart

  Funny, Inspiring, Trying

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• If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

  Russell Malone

  Funny, Inspiring, Team

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• I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

  Richard Thompson

  Funny, Inspiring, Nice

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• With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion.

  Bill Milkowski

  Fashion, New York, Cds

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