Playing Guitar Quotes

• I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

  Jimmy Page

  Believe, Unique, Player

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• I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

  Joe Satriani

  Hero, Player, Guitar

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• I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

  Chris Cornell

  Letting Go, Rocks, Guitar

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• So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Brother, Guitar, Trying

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• Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

  John Fogerty

  Music, Journey, Guitar

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• Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Rocks, Guitar

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• I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

  Johnny Winter

  Guitar

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• When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.

  Robby Krieger

  Kings, Guitar, Expression

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• When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

  Moby

  Rocks, Guitar, Years

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• I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

  Jackson Browne

  Birthday, Father, Guitar

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• As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Falling In Love, Honesty

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• For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom.

  Rob Halford

  Rocks, Guitar, Discovery

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.

  Lola Kirke

  Girl, Growing Up, Dad

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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• I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.

  Mara Wilson

  Mom, Brother, Yelling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Hero, Guitar

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• I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

  Ian Anderson

  Mean, Guitar, Eric

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• Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

  Bonnie Raitt

  School, Guitar, Childhood

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• I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.

  John Petrucci

  Player, Guitar, Listening

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.

  Courtney Barnett

  Girl, Silly, Rocks

  "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I get to do a lot of things I don't usually get to do with the boys. I love playing guitar and rocking out on stage, so I do a ton of that with my solo project. [Backstreet Boys] all give each other the freedom to do our own thing, which just makes the bond the five of us have stronger

  Nick Carter

  Boys, Guitar, Giving

  "Nick Carter Reflects on the '90s Backstreet Boys, Says New Album Is in the Works (Q&A)". Interview with Natalie Stone, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2016.

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• The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Guitar, Media

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• And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Guitar, Lynching

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Strong, Nice

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.

  Theresa Wayman

  Couple, Thinking, Guitar

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• It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

  Noel Gallagher

  Writing, Guitar, Useless

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