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

  Johnny Winter

  Guitar

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• Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

  Trevor Rabin

  Guitar, Color, Use

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• Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.

  Dave Grohl

  Girl, Thinking, Guitar

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• My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

  Josh Hartnett

  Dad, Vacation, Guitar

  "Josh Hartnett On “August”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. July 15.

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• As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

  Richie Sambora

  Song, Player, Guitar

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• My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

  David Pajo

  Song, Writing, Kids

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• Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

  Johnny Depp

  Song, Jesus, Memories

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• I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

  Jonny Lang

  Guitar, Years, Two

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• Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

  Kris Allen

  Writing, Guitar, Forever

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

  Martin Gore

  Guitar, Piano, Atmosphere

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• I've learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn't like you. I used to put so much effort into boys. I started playing guitar because I wanted to impress this boy. Then, I ended up in love with guitar and I didn't care about the boy anymore.

  Ellie Goulding

  Boys, Guitar, Effort

  "Love Lessons From Ellie Goulding". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. October 9, 2012.

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• So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was pretty nervous. And before the day is over I'm playing guitar, and there's Paul McCartney over there, playing his Hofner bass and singing. All I can do is think, 'This life is so so bizarre.'

  Rusty Anderson

  Thinking, Guitar, Singing

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• Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Time, Couple, Dad

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• I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

  Vivian Campbell

  Jobs, Real, School

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• I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

  Tom Chapin

  Brother, Guitar, My Brother

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• When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.

  Jon Spencer

  Guitar, Feel Good, Lazy

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• I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Guitar, Kind, Accidents

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• Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

  Bootsy Collins

  Home, Guitar, Years

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